44 15 4132 https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/87f412642b881f8872b11a34a31f62dc.pdf 347df5c08f59f9c1121d489aef7517b1 PDF Text Text About Wilkes Home n Graduate Academics Academics n Graduate Admission & Aid Graduate Programs n Graduate Life Master's Degree Programs About Our Students n n The Arts Creative Writing MA/MFA Revise This! n Archives Revise This - April 2010 Revise This! 2017 2018 Revise This! REVISE THIS ARCHIVES Contents: Colum McCann Wins National Book Award | Marlon James Named Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award Cecilia Galante Joins Creative Writing Faculty | Page To Stage Faculty Notes | Student Notes  Colum McCann Wins National Book Award Colum McCann, winner National Book Award November 2019 Revise This! Archives n 2010 n n �Colum McCann, a member of the advisory board for the Wilkes University Graduate Creative Writing Program, has won the National Book Award for his novel Let the Great World Spin. The award was presented on Nov. 18 in New York City. The award – considered one of literature’s most prestigious – is presented in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature. As a member of the Wilkes creative writing program’s advisory board, McCann has provided input on course content and curriculum, performed readings from his work at its residencies, and been a thesis reader for degree candidates in the program. Let The Great World Spin takes place in August 1974, when a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the Twin Towers, a quarter mile above the ground. It chronicles the lives of a group of New Yorkers, weaving their separate stories against the backdrop of the tightrope walker’s feat. Some of McCann’s other novels include Zoli, Dancer, and This Side of Brightness. His fiction has been published in 30 languages and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Paris Review, Bomb and other places. He has written for numerous publications including The Irish Times, Die Zeit, La Republicca, Paris Match, The New York Times, the Guardian and the Independent. In 2003 he was named Esquire magazine's "Writer of the Year." Other awards and honors include a Pushcart Prize, the Rooney Prize, the Hennessy Award for Irish Literature, the Irish Independent Hughes and Hughes/Sunday Independent Novel of the Year 2003, and the 2002 Ireland Fund of Monaco Princess Grace Memorial Literary Award. His short film, “Everything in this Country Must,” directed by Gary McKendry, was nominated for a 2005 Academy Award. McCann lives in New York City, where he teaches creative writing at Hunter College. The mission of the National Book Foundation and the National Book Awards is to celebrate the best of American literature, expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of good writing in America. Marlon James Named Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award �Marlon James, Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction Marlon James’ novel The Book of Night Women was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction by the National Book Critics Circle. The finalists were announced in January, and the winners were announced on March 11.  Other finalists included memoir writer Mary Karr, former U.S. poet laureate Louise Glück, and former National Book Award winner William T. Vollmann. The other fiction nominees included Hilary Mantel, Jayne Anne Phillips, and Michelle Huneven. Mantel won the fiction category for her novel Wolf Hall. The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a nonprofit organization with around 600 members, "book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns." James worked on The Book of Night Women while he was enrolled in the creative writing program. He also teaches at Macalester College in Minnesota. Cecilia Galante Joins Creative Writing Faculty Cecilia Galante, newest member of Creative Writing Faculty Young adult novelist Cecilia Galante has joined the faculty of the Graduate Creative Writing Program. She is the author of five young adult novels. Her first, The Patron Saint of Butterflies, was selected as a Young Adult Book of the Year by the Northeast Independent Booksellers Association, a Top Ten Pick for 2008 by Amazon, and a Recommended Read for Teens on Oprah's website. Another one of her books, Hershey Herself, will be translated into Polish in 2010. Her other novels include Willowood, and The Sweetness of Salt, which will be published in 2011. She has BA from King’s College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. �Her first interactions with the faculty and students came in January when she attended the residency. “It was thrilling. I had no idea that I was going to be among such a crowd of intellectuals and have peers that are so successful,” she said. Galante is no stranger to teaching. She spent years teaching high school English in the Wilkes-Barre area, though she is currently on sabbatical. But when it comes to teaching in the Graduate Creative Writing Program, she plans to use what she learned as a graduate student at Goddard. “I’m trying to borrow more from my experience as a student. My teachers at Goddard were incredibly supportive and astute,” she said.  “I’ve been able to draw from that experience and insert criticism in a way that doesn’t kill the spirit.” Besides teaching, Galante is also hard at work on her first adult novel, and the process has not always been easy. “It’s been incredibly daunting. For young adult, you’re allowed to write more simply and straightforward,” she said. “So, I was getting caught up in sounding like an adult and  sounding smart enough.” Galante added that the process has been easier lately, and she’s confident the book will stand on its own. She has to submit a manuscript by the end of April. Though this will be Galante’s first adult novel, she admitted that she was not initially attracted to the young adult genre. “I wasn’t even familiar there was a YA genre when I wrote my first book, The Patron Saint of Butterflies. My agent said we were going to market it as young adult, and I was devastated. I didn’t think it was young adult,” she said. “I sat back and waited, and she was right. It became a successful young adult book and a crossover book. It appeals to adults and young adults at the same time.” Bonnie Culver Helps Area High School Students Take Writen Work from "Page to Stage" �Bonnie Culver Students in four northeast Pennsylvania school districts have a chance to become playwrights in a special program being piloted by Bonnie Culver, director of the Graduate Creative Writing Program. Culver worked with two graduate students, Sarah Pugh and Cory Brin, on a master of fine arts project developing a pilot program, “Page to Stage.” Culver is working as guest artist in four high schools – Hanover Area, Hazleton, Tunkhannock and Wyoming Valley West  – to teach basic elements of playwriting to students. Culver was in the schools Tuesdays and Wednesdays from Feb. 2 to March 25. Each student presented a 10-minute play. One or two plays from each school will be chosen to be presented at the Fine Arts Fiesta in May. Wilkes University’s long-term goal is to replicate this with fiction, poetry, film, and nonfiction with creative writing students and faculty serving as guest artists in area schools with a final arts festival on campus. Faculty/Staff Notes Christine Gelineau’s essay “Cops” was published in the winter issue of The Florida Review as a runner up in their Editors’ Award in Nonfiction. Rashidah Ismaili Abu-Bakr’s poetry was published in Bending the Bow, a collection of love poems from Africa, published by Southern Illinois Press. Sara Pritchard's story "Sip the Wine" was published in Vol. 76, No. 1 of New Letters (Dec. 2009). Her story "Two Studies in Entropy" won a Pushcart Prize and is included in the 2010 PUSHCART PRIZE XXXIV BEST OF THE SMALL PRESSES anthology, and her story "Help Wanted: Female" is forthcoming in Vol. 6 (2010) of The Tusculum Review. Sara will be reading at the River Festival of Books in Huntington, West Virginia, on Friday, April 16, 2010. Student/Alumni Notes M.A. student Amy Archer had part of her memoir entitled “Bad �Connection” published in the December issue of the Journal of Truth and Consequences. M.A. student Cindy Dlugolecki’s play, “Violet Oakley Unveiled,” was showcased at Villanova University on Thursday, March 18. The onewoman show helped celebrate Women’s History Month. Violet Oakley was the first woman in art history to paint murals in a public building, and her home and studio were only a few miles from Villanova’s campus, according to Dlugolecki. Dlugolecki, the actress, director, and tech team were also the guest of five different departments at Villanova, including Women and Gender Studies, History, and Art. M.F.A. student Brian Fanelli’s poem “Freshman Year” was published in the February issue of My Favorite Bullet. http://www.interiornoisepress.com/0010_FANELLI_FreshmanYear.html, and his poems “In a Club’s Cracked Mirror” and “Why I Said No” were published in the March issue of Word Riot http://www.wordriot.org/archives/976. Alum Pete Kaszyk’s short story, “You’re Not My Father,” was accepted for publication by Kerlak Publishing for inclusion in its WTF Anthologies edition. Publication date is pending. M.A. student Kimberly Loomis-Bennet’s poem, “It Is Sweet and Decorous To Be Poor in One’s Country,” was published in the Winter 2010 issue of The November 3rd Club. http://www.november3rdclub.com/2010/02-2010/poetry/loomisbennett.html   Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. 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Archives Contents: Major Film Producer Susan Cartsonis Joins Creative Writing Advisory Board | Lenore Hart's The Raven's Bride is Released to Positive Reviews | Creative Writing Director Bonnie Culver Elected to AWP Board of Directors | Faculty/Staff Notes | Student/Alumni Notes Major Film Producer Susan Cartisonis Joins Creative Writing Advisory Board Cartsonis is a producer and also serves as President of Storefront Pictures. She is known for producing such blockbusters as What Women Want (starring Mel Gibson) and Where the Heart is (starring Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd, and Sally Field). Cartsonis served as an executive for Twentieth Century Fox for n 2011 n n �nearly a decade before leaving to build two successful film companies. During her tenure at Fox, she helped develop and supervise Nell, The Truth About Cats and Dogs, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and many others, including a film adaptation of Wilkes faculty member Beverly Donofrio’s Riding in Cars with Boys.  Prior to her career at Fox, Cartsonis was an instructor for New York University's Dramatic Writing Program. She received her M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from N.Y.U. and a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from U.C.L.A. Cartsonis credits her degree as instrumental in her development as a producer, “When you work with writers, it's invaluable to be able to speak to them as someone who has written screenplays and plays and respects the creative process, struggle, and sheer challenge of creating something and seeing it through to completion.” Throughout her career, Cartsonis has always stayed connected to teaching, serving as a speaker and graduate critique professional at UCLA, USC, and SCAD. With such strong professional and academic records, she is a welcome addition to our Creative Writing Community. “Mentoring is part of being a producer— with writers young and old,” says Cartsonis, “Creative writing programs are so important in generating the next batch of talented film makers, novelists, and story tellers.” Cartsonis's latest project, Beastly, is in theaters now. Lenore Hart's The Raven's Bride is released to Positive Reviews Author and Creative Writing Faculty Member, Lenore Hart, has released her much-anticipated new novel, The Raven's Bride. The book chronicles the courtship and eventual marriage of Edgar Allen Poe and his thirteenyear-old cousin, Virginia Clem. The book has been called "an impressive, original work that illuminates its subject," by Publisher's Weekly.  Hart is no stranger to success, her break out novel, Becky, chronicling the life of Mark Twain's heroine Becky Thatcher, was also very wellreceived by the literary community. When asked what draws her to stories in which she gives voice to women who are largely considered �supporting figures, Hart said "I like the challenge of rendering what it must’ve been like to be a woman living in a different era (probably a lot more than I’d actually enjoy the reality of it!) It’s fascinating to immerse oneself in the food, clothes, manners, and customs of different eras and places." The Raven's Bride was a labor of love for Hart, requiring much research that meant spending two and a half years (figuratively) in Poe's 19th century world.   One of Hart's biggest challenges was keeping up with the Poes. "They moved all the time! I had to leave out some of their abodes or it would have been incredibly confusing. They were in Baltimore, Richmond, Philadelphia, and New York City (twice)".  Look for The Raven's Bride, published by St. Martin's Press, online or at an independent bookseller near you. Creative Writing Director Bonnie Culver Elected to AWP Board of Directors Bonnie Culver was elected to the board of directors for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. Culver is only the second low-residency director to hold such an honor.  The program was founded in 1967 as the Associated Writing Programs. Created to support the growing presence of literary writers in higher education, the mission of AWP is to promote literary talent and achievement, to advance the art of writing as necessary for quality education, and to serve the makers, teachers, students, and readers of contemporary writing.  Culver looks forward to the possibilities her AWP position may provide for the Wilkes Creative Writing Program. "Our inclusion means that the issues, concerns of low-residency programs are being heard directly by AWP and its membership. Grants, awards for emerging writers, arts support such as NEA (and its future), setting standards of assessment and quality of all successful programs are part and parcel of what is addressed by the Board and the AWP membership.  Wilkes is now there at the table, being a part of that national conversation." Culver's appointment allowed her a unique perspective at this year's AWP conference, held in Washington, D.C. She arrived two days earlier than attendees for board meetings, and things only got busier once the crowds started filing in. "Board members are expected to attend sessions, meet and greet and thank sponsors, go to receptions, special dinners, host writer guests at dinners, and even introduce writers at open sessions." But, the busy week paid off, says Culver, "Because Wilkes was a major sponsor of the conference, I had the honor of introducing �Mary Gaitskill this year; Jim [Warner, Assistant Director,] introduced poet/memoirist Sapphire!" Faculty/Staff Notes David Poyer’s latest novel Ghosting, a story of a dysfunctional family threatened on a weeklong sailing excursion, was published by St. Martin’s Press in November, 2010. Faculty members Tony Morris, Beverly Donofrio, and Lenore Hart, were among the visiting writers included in the first Ossabaw Island Writer's Retreat, organized by Morris himself. Ossabaw Island is a secluded retreat just off of Savannah Georgia. “Participants were strongly affected by the beauty and serenity of the island,” says Morris. “They commented on the spirit, tone and mood of the retreat—particularly the near-magical presence and sense of natural and human history locked into a place ‘that time forgot.’”  Nancy McKinley's short story, Glue, has been accepted by Gulf Coast.   Juanita Rockwell's short play, Language Monkey, was accepted for production in this summer's Source Festival, Washington D.C. Rockwell also directed Jennifer Nelson's play, 24, 7, 365, which toured to The Atlas Theater (DC), Hylton Performing Arts Center (Manassas, VA) and The Harris Theater (Fairfax, VA). Finally, Juanita's full-length play, Between Trains, was included in Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Fall 2010.   Neil Shepard has placed poems in the current issues of the Harvard Review, Hunger Mountain Review, NOR (New Ohio Review) and online at Fogged Clarity.   He also has a Jazz poem due out soon in the jazz magazine Brilliant Corners.   Jim Warner, Nancy McKinley, Alum Joseph Nalbone and Alum Starr Troup presented a panel session "Virtual Mentoring Made Real: The Evolving Tech of a Low-Residency Program" at the AWP Conference, 2011.  Bonnie Culver, Jean Klein, and Ross Klavan presented a panel session “Playwriting and Screenwriting: Our Business in the Academy” at the AWP Conference, 2011.   Student/Alumni Notes M.F.A. studentAmye Archer, has placed an excerpt from her memoir, �Fat Girl Skinny, with PANK Magazine, as part of their This Modern Writer Series.    M.F.A. student Ally Bishop, director of the Lit Outloud Reading Series, hosted another successful event this past February. Readers included Bishop, Alum Rick Fellinger, Alum Brian Fanelli, M.F.A student Amye Archer, Alum Lori Meyers, and M.F.A. student William Prystauk.   To celebrate Women’s History Month, Violet Oakley Unveiled, a onewoman play written by MA Student Cindy Dlugolecki, was performed at the Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC) Rose Lehrman Arts Center.    M.F.A. Alum Brian Fanelli's poem "Dive" was published in March by the journal Young American Poets. In addition, Erika Funke of WVIA Radio interviewed Fanelli regarding his poetry chapbook, Front Man, for her ArtScene program.   M.F.A. Alum Patricia Florio hasentered into a contract with Sue Richter at Sera Publishing.  The two will be presenting, East Meets West, American Writers Review.     M.A. Alum Jennifer Diskinhas published a chapbook, Wear White and Grieve, with Naissance Chapbooks by chapbookpublisher.com.   M.F.A. Alum Rick Fellinger's novel, Memoirs of a Little League Dad, has been named a quarter-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. M.F.A. Alum Joseph Giomboni's screenplay, Ripple, was a quarterfinalist in the Scriptapalooza 2010 International Screenwriting Competition. The script made the cut of 377 from more than 3500 entries. M.A. student Tyler Grimm had an article published in Celebrate Gettysburg Magazine, and has since become a contributing writer for the publication.   M.F.A. Alum Matthew Hinton's play, Quiet Cowboy, was produced by The Gaslight Theater Company in Scranton, PA in January.   In November 2010, Finishing Line Press released M.F.A. Alum Dawn Leas's first chapbook, I Know When to Keep Quiet.  Leas has also led a workshop and reading at the West Pittston Library.   M.A. student Kimberly Loomis-Bennett has placed poems from her MA thesis, Soiled Doves, in The Legendary, and The Copperfield Review.   �M.A. Alum Gale Martin's novel, Deviled by Don, advanced to the second round of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest.   M.A. student Laura Moran had two poems accepted from her MA mss, a novel in verse called Jump the Snake, by the journal Redactions (Issue 14) due out this summer.   Cinderella and the Lone Prince, book and lyrics by M.A. Alum, Lori Myers, was staged last summer by Gretna Theatre, Mt. Gretna, PA. Also, Lori's short story, Stranger on a Train, was published by Dark Fire Fiction.   M.F.A. Alum Taylor M. Polites' book, A Red and Dying Evening, has been picked up by Simon & Schuster. Look for it in February of 2012. M.F.A. student William Prystauk's screenplay, Risen, has won first place in the Horror Screenplay Contest, and was a semi-finalist in Shriekfest.  His screenplay, The Darwin Witch, was selected as a top-ten finalist in Shiver’s First Short Horror Screenplay Competition. In addition, Prystauk's short screenplay, Catalyst, has also placed second at WILDsounds, and was recently picked up by an up and coming production company, and expanded to a ten-minute film. M.A. studentAnastasia Savage's YA novel, Any Witch Way, is being published by JournalStone Publications. The novel is available for presale on Barnes&Noble.com.   M.F.A. Alum Donna Talarico was hired as web content editor in the office of marketing and communications at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pa.   M.F.A. Alum Starr Troup was named Managing Editor of Etruscan Press, following a successful internship with the press, which is housed at Wilkes University.   Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Make A Gift �Online Nursing Programs E.S. Farley Library Human Resources Jobs at Wilkes Offices & Administration Accessibility Statement Financial Aid Adobe Acrobat® Reader Registrar's Office Finance Office Investor Relations Student Work Study Jobs Veterans Services Visit Quick Links Schedule a Visit Parking Information Virtual Tour Campus Map 84 West South Street Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 1-800-WILKES-U Contact Us Wilkes University © �e © d c f � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Revise This! 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The debut has been named one of the Best Southern Reads for 2012 by The Atlanta Journal – Constitution. Taylor has also received glowing reviews from BookPage, O Magazine, and The Southern Independent Booksellers Association. “I am really amazed at the amount of great coverage and response the book has received,” Taylor said. “It is truly a dream come true. I really appreciate the support and guidance that the Wilkes MFA community, Related Links Calendars & Schedules Campus Map Centers for Excellence Faculty Publications Graduate Bulletin (.pdf) Graduate Bulletin Online Graduate Student Handbook Library Office of the Registrar Online Learning Professional Pharmacy Application School of Nursing - Graduate Program Student Handbook Schools, Departments, Divisions n n �students, alumni and faculty, has given me. You don't make these things happen on your own. I feel so lucky to be a part of a community that extends way beyond graduation.” Taylor was on the road for almost four weeks in February. “I toured 14 cities in five states. It was amazing to be able to go out, book in hand, and talk to people about writing and history and the South. It is an absolute dream come true.” He is now embarking on a series of promotional events ranging from the Virginia Festival of the Book to the Alabama Book Festival. Dates and locations for the tour are available on Taylor’s website: http://taylormpolites.com In 2009, Taylor was awarded the Norris Church Mailer Scholarship. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where he is currently working on the research for a second book, another one set in Albion, Alabama. New Low-Residency Representation on AWP Board At the recent AWP Conference in Chicago IL, two low-residency program directors were elected to serve as officers on the AWP Board. Wilkes’ own Bonnie Culver is now serving as Treasurer and Steve Heller, director of the Antioch University Los Angeles program, is serving as President. Steve was elected in 2010 and Bonnie Culver in 2011; each will serve a four year term. “This is the first time two low-res program directors are on the Board,” Culver said, “and it’s the first time two are acting as Officers. It’s very exciting.” This is great news for low-residency programs. Congratulations to Steve and Bonnie. Announcements The June Residency is scheduled to take place June 15-23, 2012. Applications for June admission are due May 15 for regular admission or May 1 to be considered for Graduate Assistantships. Jack Scovil, long-time Advisory Board Member, passed away February 23, 2012. Jack was a literary agent for more than 40 years and a principal agent at Scovil Galen Ghosh in New York City. He worked with Norman Mailer, Margaret Truman, Larry Smith, and many others. Jack was a founding Advisory Board Member of the low-residency MFA program at Wilkes. “‘Uncle Jack’ was a wonderful supporter, friend, and advisor to the entire program,” said Bonnie Culver. “He will be dearly missed.” A Memorial Celebration for Norris Church Mailer will take place in April. This is a closed event by invitation only. Wilkes faculty, alum, and �students wishing to share a few words about Norris should contact the Program Director, Bonnie Culver or Dr. Michael Lennon for more information. They will attend the event and represent Wilkes. Faculty members who include students on AWP 2013 panel discussions are eligible to apply for student funding support from the Wilkes University Mentoring Committee. Involvement of current students is encouraged. Please contact Program Director Bonnie Culver for more details. Alums George Kraynak and Julia Steier have good news: Many nonsensical things occur with your cohort during the grueling eight days of the January and June residencies that brings your group closer. But during the work semesters and the hours spent on the program formally known as WebCT, an unlikely friendship can ignite then twist into companionship. George Kraynak (MFA 2010) and Julia Steier (MA 2010) met in 501 during the January residency in 2008. In 2009, their Wilkes friendship moved into real time and the writing relationship quickly derailed into something more. They co-founded a scrumptious online food blog titled George and Julia Eat Manhattan (http://www.georgeandjuliaeatmanhattan.com). They began documenting their culinary adventures, and for two and a half years these two delectable delights couldn’t deny their uncanny connection and attraction. On an unseasonably warm February afternoon in Central Park, George and Julia were laying side-by-side holding hands when suddenly George began pouring his heart out about their future together. Several times before they've hypothetically discussed the greatness of getting married and moving in together, but nothing more. But like a colt learning to stand, George nervously got on one knee and gazed into her eyes. Julia sat up so bewildered by his actions and couldn't fathom what was unraveling right in front of her. So instead of shutting up and listening, she hollered at his practical joke. But George tuned her out—a tactic he’s acquired over their time spent together— and pulled a small velvet brown box from his breast coat pocket. When he creaked the box open, the daylight glinted off the diamond like meteor showers at midnight. Without hesitation, Julia lunged for the ring. George smiled and said, “So you’ll marry me?” and Julia emphatically nodded yes. �Faculty/Staff Notes Nancy McKinley’s essay “Title IX and Me” appears in the anthology Becoming: What Makes a Woman, published by the University of Nebraska, February, 2012. Her short story “Signed Sealed Delivered” has been accepted by the Main Street Rag Short Fiction Anthology for the TATTOOS theme to be published in Fall of 2012.Nancy was a reader at the February Prose in Pubs event. On May 4, 2012 she will be reading at MulberryArt Studio, First Friday in Lancaster City, 6-8 p.m. for the Elizabethtown Writers Group, with Wilkes Alumni Gale Martin and Rick Fellinger, as well as Mary Beth Matteo and Jesse Waters. Gregory Fletcher’s play Cow-Tipping and Other Signs of Stress is a national finalist for the Reva Shiner Comedy Award from the Bloomington Playwrights Project. Neil Shepard has given poetry readings in a half-dozen states to celebrate his new poetry book, (T)ravel/Un(t)ravel. Upcoming readings include the KGB Bar in New York City in April, Vermont Poetry Society in May, Saratoga Arts Festival in June, and Chautauqua Writers Institute in July. Shepard will teach a Poetry Workshop at Poets House in Manhattan (April-May) and an Advanced Poetry Workshop at the Chautauqua Writers Institute in July. New poems are forthcoming in Per Contra (online) and the Chautauqua Literary Review. Three book reviews of Travel/Untravel appear in PANK (online), Fogged Clarity (online), and Provincetown Arts. Student/Alumni Notes M.F.A. alum Amye Archer has a piece, “Found,” accepted by H_ngm_n for the April issue. She has also been selected as a guest editor for a special Parenting issue of PANK Magazine. The issue is scheduled for June. M.F.A. alum Christopher Bullard’s full-length book of poetry, Back, has been selected by WordTech Communications for publication by their CW Books imprint in November of 2013. M.A. student Kait Burrier’s poem, “To the Little Boy in the White Gown,” will be published in the Carlow University Press anthology, Voices in the Attic, Vol. XVIII. M.F.A. alum Brian Fanelli has a poem entitled “After Work” in the current issue of Harpur Palate. He also has poems forthcoming in the fall issue of Inkwell Journal and the spring/summer issue of Solstice Literary Magazine. �M.F.A. alum Richard Fellinger’s short story collection, They Hover Over Us, has been published by Snake Nation Press. This collection of 13 stories about people from PA’s Rust Belt won the 2011 Serena McDonald Kennedy Fiction Award and is available now at readings and signings hosted by the author. The publisher will make the book available soon at its Web site, snakenationpress.org, and on Amazon. M.F.A. alum Patricia Florio is working with Literary Adventure, a reading series. This month The Jersey Shore Writers will be sharing the stage at the Belmar Arts Council with three Wilkes Alums. M.A. alum Jerry Gurka wrote and directed a play, The Prodigal Sons: Passion Play 2012, performed in Larksville PA, in March. M.F.A. alum Bill Lowenburg’s novel, The Zorki Chronicles, is a quarter finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest. Finals take place in June. He also recently published a photography article on the Australian Website, Lucida. M.A. alum Gale Martin will be reading at MulberryArt Studio, May 4, for the Elizabethtown Writers Group. M.A. student Lori A. May has an article, “Bypass obstacles to traditional publication,” in the March 2012 edition online at WriterMag.com. She is scheduled to speak at the Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs Conference hosted at Humber College in Toronto, May 2012. M.A. alum Lori Myers will be teaching a workshop entitled “Acting the Book: Putting Pizazz into Your Literary Readings” at the Pennwriters Conference, Lancaster, PA. She will also be doing a fiction reading and teaching a writing workshop at the Chautauqua Institute in New York this summer. M.F.A. alum William D. Prystauk’s academic paper, “The Kids Aren’t All Right: Horror Movies Remind Us that Protecting Children at Home is an Illusion” was just published in the Mid-Atlantic Popular American Culture Association “Gazette” (2012 Winter Edition). His short crime story, “Mara” will appear in the upcoming issue of “Criminal Class Review.” The academic paper he prepared for his MFA critical paper at Wilkes has been accepted for publication by the peer reviewed “Studies in Gothic Fiction.” Bill has also begun pre-production of his short dramatic horror, Too Many Predators, to be filmed in late August. M.A. alum Dania Ramos’ bilingual co-creation MI CASA TU CASA was produced at Luna Stage as part of its 2011-2012 mainstage season. In December, her play ROOM 30 received a staged reading as part of Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey’s FORUM Series at Fairleigh �Dickinson University. She was also selected for Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey’s 2011-12 New Jersey Emerging Women Playwrights Project, a ten-month play development program. M.A. student Michael Soloway will have a memoir excerpt published in the May issue of Brevity magazine. The piece is called “Introducing Mother Nature.” M.F.A. student Sandee Umbach’s full-length poetry collection, The Pattern Maker’s Daughter, was released in February of 2012 by Bottom Dog Press. Jim Daniels, author and editor, calls the collection “a remarkable debut … full of honesty, wisdom, and heart.” Program Note The Write Life blog welcomes guest posts from faculty, students, and alumni. Email lori.may1@wilkes.edu for details. 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Wilkes and program partners were among the thousands of literary lovers in D.C. Revise This! November 2019 n 2017 n n �AWP17 kicked off on Wednesday evening with the 50th Anniversary Gala, benefitting the Association's mentorship program. Etruscan Press and Wilkes University co-sponsored a table at the Gala. Table guests included Program Director Dr. Bonnie Culver; Founding Advisory Board member Dr. J. Michael Lennon; Advisory Board member Tim Seibles; Faculty Members Dr. Phil Brady, Kaylie Jones, Dr. Robert Mooney; Program Partner Johnny Temple; NPR's Maureen Corrigan; Man Booker Prize winner Marlon James (M.F.A. '06); and Associate Director Bill Schneider (M.F.A.'14). Wilkes also provided student volunteers for the Gala, including Etruscan intern Justin Bodnar; M.A. students Aurora Bonner, Lisa Greim, Christopher Owens, Pamela Turchin, and Danie Watson; and alumnae Kelly Clisham and Vicki Mayk, who all donned their cocktail attire and manned the Gala desks. Thursday morning the Bookfair began. Wilkes and Etruscan cosponsored a booth where Wilkes alumni, current students, and faculty answered questions, recruited new students, and networked. Faculty members Rashidah Ismaili Abubakr, Gregory Fletcher, Lenore Hart, Kaylie Jones, Jean Klein, J. Michael Lennon, David Poyer, and Bill Schneider answered the questions of prospective students and faculty. Alumni Austin Bennett, Kait Burrier, Wendy Decker, Brian Fannelli, Pat Florio, Stanton Hancock, Tony Kapolka, Donna Mailes, Jonathan Pierce, and Joseph Schwartzburt, along with current students Whitney Brimat, Melody Breyer-Grell, Bibiana Krall, Pamela Turchin, and Danie Watson manned the booth in shifts throughout the Bookfair. Lisa Greim hopped from event to event, snapping photos of all Wilkesaffiliated presenters. Wilkes faculty, staff, and alumni participated in more than 15 panels, readings, and off-site events. Faculty members Laurie Jean Cannady, Susan Cartsonis, Gregory Fletcher, Kaylie Jones, Jean Klein, Laurie Lowenstein, and Tim Seibles presented or read during the conference. �Alumni Viannah Duncan, Lori Myers, Nisha Sharma, Donna Talarico, Barbara J. Taylor, Jim Warner, and Morowa Yejide represented Wilkes on panels across the convention schedule. Alumni Jason Carney hosted the AWP Old School Slam, sponsored by Wilkes and Etruscan, which boasted an impressive 26 poets who presented their work. Program partners—Akashic Books, Blue Moon Plays, Etruscan Press, Kaylie Jones Books, and Northampton House Press—were all represented at AWP17. Etruscan Press hosted book signings in the booth, including authors Remica Bingham-Risher, Bruce Bond, Laurie Jean Cannady, David Lazar, J.D. Schraffenberger, Tim Seibles, and D. M. Spitzer. Kaylie Jones Books hosted a book signing after their reading, including authors Laurie Lowenstein, J. Patrick Redmond, Patricia Smith, and Barbara J. Taylor. Literary agent and outside reader Albert LaFarge stopped by the booth to engage current students and alumni about their current projects. Wilkes Graduate Creative Writing Program Founding Advisory Board Member Colum McCann and alum Marlon James were featured speakers. AWP17 also marked Program Director Bonnie Culver's final year as Chair of the AWP Board of Trustees. Dr. Culver has served on the Board of Trustees for four years as Chair, and will now be serving as Vice Chair. Of her service, Dr. Culver says, "The board I serve with is one of the most diverse, committed, and experienced groups I have had the joy of joining." In her final words as Board Chair, Dr. Culver says, "Our association's new story can only be written by all of us, through conversations, engagement, philanthropy, and your own writing and good works." Next year's AWP will be held in Tampa, Florida from March 7-10, 2018. The 2018 Conference Subcommittee is seeking proposals that feature panelists who are diverse in their backgrounds, pursuits, affiliations, and ages, and who represent a broad range of perspectives and experiences. AWP encourages participation from current and recent graduate students. Successful proposals observe the guidelines and modules by which the Subcommittee receive and review proposals. Please read the Event Proposal Guidelines carefully as well as information about How Events Are Selected. If you have questions about submitting a proposal, please email the AWP 2018 Conference Subcommittee at events@awpwriter.org. Event proposals for the 2018 conference may be submitted until Monday, May 1, 2017 at 11:59 p.m. ET (8:59 p.m. PT). Call for Papers for Mailer Conference The 2017 Norman Mailer Society Conference will be held Oct. 26-28 at �the Sarasota Lido Hotel, Sarasota, Fla., in cooperation with the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee. Two or three papers will be presented in one-hour time slots, with the remaining time going to participant discussion and audience questions. To accommodate all presenters, paper presentations should be no longer than ten minutes. Panels will also run for one hour, as will most video screenings. Please indicate media requirements in your proposal. $100 travel grants are available for students whose proposals are approved. Guidelines for submission: Email a 50-word biographical statement and a 150-200 word abstract of the proposed presentation to the program cochairs by June 1, 2017. Phillip Sipiora (psipiora@gmail.com), Maggie McKinley (mmckinle@harpercollege.edu), and J. Michael Lennon (jmlennon1@charter.net) are the program co-chairs. Please email them with ideas for panels, papers, or special events. Take Credit for Your Talent By Danie Watson It's no secret that to receive an M.F.A. at Wilkes University, students must complete a six-credit internship. What is a secret are the number of hours each graduate student puts in for their internship. According to Megan Boone Valkenburg, the Coordinator of Student Development, each graduate student at Wilkes completes an average of 70 to 75 community service hours per year, but this number doesn't include the Graduate Creative Writing Program. Valkenburg isn't just interested in the hours each student puts in every year. She also wants to focus on the impact of the service to our writing community and beyond. "We want to tell the story of Wilkes University and the story of how our students impact their communities and communities of origin. To be able to tell that story of the good works students are doing; their ingenuity and inspiration—it's amazing," says Valkenburg. "Once you get that synergy going, amazing things start to form—marginalized students find a voice, prisoners have an outlet. It's so important for community-minded people to step up." Education Internships And they have. In the education track of the M.F.A., internships have included developing curriculums, teaching creative writing to underserved populations, and much more. A few examples of outstanding internships �include: John Winston conducted a middle school creative writing program for underserved students at Gompers Elementary/Middle School in Detroit, Mich. The craft- and reading-based class included interaction with a local author via Wikispace, and culminated with a presentation of work for parents and guardians. John also sponsored Adopt-An-Author, a free nationwide nonprofit program designed to excite young adults about reading and writing through the use of best-selling thrillers, heroic nonfiction stories, motivational books and direct contact with the authors via personal appearances, classroom phone calls, emails, and interactive websites. He also designed and taught several workshops for adult learners at the Las Vegas Writer's Conference: World Building in Fiction; Poetry as Fiction Workshop; and The Journey to IA: From Recording Artist to Author. Vicki Mayk designed, implemented, and taught a memoir workshop for the bereavement program of St. Luke's Hospice, which is part of St. Luke's University Hospital in Bethlehem, Pa. The sessions covered the building blocks of memoir, aimed at introducing participants to the tools needed for crafting essays or beginning full-length memoirs about family members they have lost. Vylinda Bryant designed and implemented creative writing classes that emphasized the use of the Visual Arts as a springboard for the writing process. Vylinda developed units and lesson plans for elementary school students through adults at The Hermitage Museum and Gardens in Norfolk, Va. Bill Schneider instructed a creative writing workshop series for veterans, held at the West Pittston Library in Pennsylvania. Bill designed the sessions to help veterans find a voice, enhancing his instruction with video clips and readings, prompting participants to bring their words to the page. Rachel Strayer instructed a playwriting workshop for grades 7-12 at the South Abington Library, Clark Summit, Pa. Rachel designed lessons for playwriting format; identifying theatrical ideas; developing character; using stage directions to create setting, tone, and visual aesthetic; crafting good dialogue; writing a beginning, middle, and end; and revising a final script. Each workshop included writing prompts, followed by a craft lesson focusing on a particular skill or element of playwriting. Students staged a public reading of their scripts. In addition, Rachel completed a two-week internship at the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, MN. Rachel assumed administrative duties, facilitated the workshop and staged reading of the visiting playwrights, and supervised a PlayLab. �Ashley Supinski developed a fiction writing workshop for teenage writers in Northampton, Pa., in which the group worked on aspects of craft and produced a final publication. The class met Saturday mornings at the public library and included oral delivery and reading components. Dr. Nancy McKinley says, "I could provide 30 or more examples. The interns have done amazing community service, and many have reached out to underserved communities. In fact, one of my personal goals is to help facilitate ways for bringing The Arts to underserved populations. Thus, by helping to prepare interns, I make inroads, and we spread the power of the word." Publishing Internships In the publishing realm, interns have written grants, copyedited, launched publishing endeavors, developed podcasts, and more. Some Etruscan interns have even gone on to work for a press. Dr. Phil Brady describes a few success stories below: Molly Barari accomplished something very special; she turned her activities with senior citizens into a unique project, and somehow got the project finished on schedule. Dakota Heirlooms has been submitted to the publisher and is now available. I couldn't be prouder or happier for Molly and for her publisher, Jean Klein. Austin Bennett came up with one of the best capstones for an internship I've seen. His portfolio included an extensive guide to researching grants, and also included particular grant-targets and strategies. He's taken on possibilities for River and South as well as Etruscan. He wrote a concise and commanding rationale for writing book reviews, and wrote a publishable book review. He also researched the work of H. L. Hix—a daunting task—and is preparing, post-internship, to interview Hix. He has just accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position at City College at Montana State University Billings. In addition, Austin was very supportive of his colleagues on the bulletin board. He is a talented and charismatic young man, and I predict a great future in writing and teaching for him. Leah Vernon took on so many new occupations: copyediting, reviewing memoir, writing study guides, following production, assisting with marketing, and supporting the work of her fellow interns on the bulletin board. All this, she accomplished—and did it on the run, since our original plan was to work with KJB as well as Etruscan. To top it off, she took a trip to Minneapolis and attended AWP, where she met a number of authors and publishers, including Laurie Jean Cannady, whose book Leah had been working on all term. I'm confident that Leah learned as much as possible from this internship. She's a powerful, talented young writer and I think she will accomplish whatever she sets her mind to. �Johanna James demonstrated the most essential qualities in the dynamic and challenging world of publishing: she is imaginative, intrepid, flexible, and endowed with big-picture vision. She launched a new publishing endeavor, Black Ink, which promises to offer new opportunities to writers of diverse backgrounds and points of view. Most importantly, Johanna brought about a new enterprise that has promise and participation from an impressive community. She is a model for what the M.A. in Literary Publishing can be and I have no doubt that she will continue to work with Wilkes and to share resources and encouragement with members of the program and candidates for the publishing degree. Suzanne Ohlmann accomplished something very special; she conceived, developed and produced her first podcast—first in a series I expect, called Storycatcher, which brings together writers, readers, and ordinary (and weird) folk to discuss the activity of making and hearing stories. Suzanne's gifts—her performance background, her talent as a writer, her community building talent, her wit and charm—are all part of story catching. This project has legs, and will far outlast its beginnings as an internship. Of her publishing internship, April Line says, "I loved the real-world experience of writing grants with Etruscan. I have not since felt as professionally validated and useful as I did during my internship. Both Bill Schneider and Phil Brady were incredibly encouraging and positive, and I had pretty broad autonomy to make things happen, which I also appreciated because it signaled that they trusted me and my instincts." These amazing internships completed by M.F.A. students are not counted in the average number of hours at Wilkes. To include the Graduate Creative Writing Program in the student averages, each student needs to complete a quick survey outlining the type of service, number of hours, and where the service was completed. Please watch for the forthcoming survey from the Creative Writing Program. Your responses will help Valkenburg share our success stories. The results will be shared with the Institutional Research Department at Wilkes, and help showcase how our writing community has achieved many of the University's core values. Danie Watson is a graduate assistant for Etruscan Press and an M.A. student in creative nonfiction at Wilkes University. Community Workshops Offered in Spring 2017 �As the snow melts and the flowers begin to bloom, Wilkes is once again offering community writing workshops for adult students, taught by program alums and faculty. The cost for each workshop series is $65.00. Poetry Workshop This adult workshop will focus on the construction of a poem from a single word or idea to a fully developed piece. Using short verse to create a compact image/thought, participants will explore narrative poems to create and develop dramatic poetry and/or story. Requirements: Each participant is expected to write at least ten short poems and two longer narratives during the workshop series. Reading and discussions of poetry handouts and participation in workshopping individual poems and critiquing others. Final presentation of work should be in the form of a chapbook that workshop participants will compile throughout the workshop series. Meetings: Tuesdays – 6-8 p.m., April 25, May 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30 Instructor: Rashidah Ismaili Abubakr Social Media Workshop: How to Leverage Social Media to Publish Your Work and Promote Yourself Social media isn't just for liking photos of your second-cousin's lobster dinner or watching hilarious cat videos—you can learn to wield the social sphere to your professional and creative advantage! This six-week adult workshop introduces you to the various social media platforms that are popular today, and will teach you how to market yourself and your writing in unique and exciting ways. In this class, your instructor will work with you to build your online persona and show you how to reach out to new communities and new readers. Classes are divided into lecture and activity sessions, and each class will have a take-home assignment. Requirements: Each participant should have access to a computer and the internet. Please bring a smartphone to class. Meetings: Tuesdays – 5:30-7:30 p.m., May 2, 9, 16, 23 30 and June 6 Instructor: Angela Greco The Poetry of Revision: What Fiction Writers Can Learn from Ezra Pound This adult workshop will focus on applying certain elements to prose from poetry, such as word play and concision, to help fiction writers revise their stories. Workshop participants will look at several poets, especially more modern ones, in addition to Ezra Pound's The ABC of Reading. Requirements: Each participant should have access to a computer and �a printer; bring copies of three consecutive, double-spaced pages of a work-in-progress to the first workshop; and carry a folder, notebook, and colored pen (not black ink) to each workshop. Meetings: Tuesdays – 6-8 p.m., May 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and June 6 Instructor: Francisco Tutella Blueprints to the Silver Screen: An Intro to Screenwriting The screenwriter is the first person to see the movie. In this six-week adult workshop, we'll explore the art of crafting compelling stories, characters, and images from your imagination to the page, ready for the silver screen. Course participants will utilize the learnings gained from these discussions to craft individual short screenplays ready for presentation at the workshop's conclusion. Course Text:The Screenwriters Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script, 6th edition. by David Trottier Meetings: Wednesdays – 6-8 p.m., May 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 and June 7 Instructor: Robert Holly Personal Histories Each participant in this adult workshop will create their own personal history of their families, passed down to create a legacy, tracing their ancestry and location in the Wilkes-Barre area, using all family records, Bibles, census information, school and public records, as well as family lore. A major source for their writing will be the stories that have been handed down for generations, songs, crafts and recipes. Each participant will bring all these elements to write their own personal history and will share in workshop their process of collection of materials, means of archiving stories, and discussions around regional histories and persona identities within various communities. Supplemental sources may include interviews with elders in families, religious leaders, priests and ministers, old photographs, videos, letters, personal materials (such as clothes and household possessions), handouts about online genealogy searches, as well as local libraries. Requirements: Each participant will maintain a notebook or folder as a permanent record of their heritage. The type of notebook is up to the workshop participant, but it should be such that one can add to and is sturdy to last for years to come. Meetings: Wednesdays – 6-8 p.m., April 26, May 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31 Instructor: Rashidah Ismaili Abubakr From Plot to Page: Turning an Idea into Prose This adult workshop is designed to help writers turn ideas into stories. In �the first week, we will begin by discussing where ideas come from. Then we'll introduce organizational techniques such as outlining and other prewriting strategies. Finally, we'll write, read, and workshop the stories we create from those original ideas. This workshop can accommodate new writers, writers looking to start a new project, or writers deep into revision. Weeks two to six will focus on workshopping work at the author's discretion. Meetings: Thursdays – 6:30-8:30 p.m., May 11, 18, 25, June 1, 8 and 15 Instructors: Robert Antinozzi and Alyssa Waugh PWC Returns to Wilkes Mark your calendars for the 3rd Annual Pennsylvania Writers Conference, which is set to launch July 30 and wrap up August 5, 2017. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey is slated as the keynote speaker, and a schedule is in the works to include weeklong workshops in a variety of writing genres as well as a two-day conference with craft classes, panel discussions, guest speakers, and pitch sessions with agents. For more information, visit http://wilkes.edu/pwc. Faculty News Bonnie Culver, program director, was elected to the Executive Committee of the AWP Board of Trustees. She will serve as vice chair of the board. Gregory Fletcher (Playwriting faculty) made his short story debut with his story "Friends of Vera" in the anthology The Night Bazaar, published �by Northampton House Press. Lenore Hart has a poem in Forgotten Women: A Tribute in Poetry, edited by Ginny Lowe Connors and published this spring by Grayson Press. The book was available in time for International Women's Day (March 8). Some of the contributors read at a book launch in Connecticut through the Riverwood Poetry Series on March 9. J. Michael Lennon reviewed Joan Didion's new book, South and West, in the (London) Times Literary Supplement Feb. 2. "Editor, edit thyself," Mike's review of Robert Gottlieb's memoir for the TLS, pulls no punches: "Avid Reader: A Life is full of stale phrases, sketchy anecdotes and perfunctory accolades for all the wonderful guys and gals he's worked with over the years." Nevertheless, Dr. Lennon writes, Gottlieb tells fascinating stories about the writers he coddled, cajoled, and masterminded into print, including Chaim Potok, Lauren Bacall, and Robert Caro. Lennon's edition of Norman Mailer's The Fight (about "The Rumble in the Jungle," the Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman championship bout in Zaire in 1974) has just been published by Taschen Books in an oversized edition with hundreds of photos. David Poyer did a long interview with the Center for International Maritime Security about his writing process and the background for his Modern Navy novels, specifically the latest, Onslaught, which was published in December. Student and Alumni News Austin Grant Bennett (M.F.A.'15) began work in January as an instructor for City College at Montana State University Billings. Tom Borthwick (M.F.A. '09) published a short story, "Silencing the Machine," in Altered States II: a Cyberpunk Anthology. It's available on Amazon in print and digital formats, and was cited as a standout and favorably reviewed at the Cyberpunk website, Neon Dystopia. Another short story, "Long in the Dying," was published in Phantaxis Magazine. It's available for purchase on Amazon. 2017 M.F.A. grad Gabrielle D'Amico's(pictured right) screenplay, Plan B, has been optioned by Intuition Media, a production company whose partners include Susan Cartsonis, Suzanne Farwell �and Brent Emery. Angela Eckhart, "one of the Original Tattooed Wilkies from the Class of 2009," doesn't have any news but writes, "I am thrilled to be connected with this writing community, even though I haven't visited a residency for quite some time." Brian Fanelli (M.F.A. '10) recently had an essay on Thoreau, Emerson, and the American poetic tradition accepted for publication by the Philadelphia-based Schuylkill Valley Journal. A preview of the essay appears online, and the print version will be published in June. Richard Fellinger (M.F.A. '10) has signed a contract with Open Books to publish his debut novel, Made To Break Your Heart. Publication is slated for June 2017. D Ferrara's (M.A. '13) screenplay, Arvin Lindemeyer Takes Canarsie, won the Outstanding Feature-Length Screenplay at the Oil Valley Film Festival. This piece had formed the basis of her thesis at Wilkes. With Pat Florio, she is also editing a book of short fiction and memoir created by participants at a workshop with Kaylie Jones and Judy Mandel in Tuscany, due out later this year from Wendy Decker's Serendipity Press. Sandee Gertz (M.F.A. '12) hosts "Everyday Poetry: Poetry for the People!" on Radio Free Nashville -- available worldwide on the net. She says: "It's a live call-in show and features Working Class Poetry—and poetry rooted in place, work, blue-collar, white-collar, pink-collar concerns, etc. It also features place-based and Americana travel poetry." She's looking for submissions of work in any genre (especially interested in working people, parenting, domestic labor and Southern stories), author interviews, and music. "I'd be happy to have any alums send work for consideration on the show. I also play roots music so am always looking for submissions for that as well!" Send submissions (poetry, stories, books, recordings) to Sandee Gertz, 1805 Cahal Ave, Nashville, �TN 37206 or sandeegertz@gmail.com. Cooper Gorelick (M.A. student) continued his research for his thesis project—a screenplay about a theater company—by playing the role of Juror No. 9 in Rutgers-Camden's production of Reginald Rose's 12 Angry Jurors, Feb. 22-26. The launch for Heather Harlen's (M.A. '08) latest book, Shame, Shame, I Know Your Name, was March 4 at the Moravian Book Shop in Bethlehem, Pa. Paul Jackson (M.A. '14) had 3 poems published in Fictional Café in January. Nichole Kanney (M.F.A '15) had her feature-length comedy screenplay Shady Birch selected as a finalist for the 2017 Nashville Film Festival. Kimberly Behre Kenna (M.A. '15) had her poem, "Spirit's Stream," published in the January edition of GFT Press. She was recently hired to write humanities curriculum, and teach for the Pathfinder program at Hopkins School in New Haven, Conn. Pathfinder is a free academic enrichment program for middle school students, attending city schools, who have a strong desire to prepare for and attend college. Monique Antonette Lewis (M.F.A. '12) was a featured reader for Great Weather for MEDIA in New York and the FBomb and The Art of Storytelling reading series, both in Denver. Her flash fiction story, "You're Cursed," was published by PoetryBay in December. She also spoke on a panel during Regis University's Mile-High MFA residency to discuss At The Inkwell. Lori A. May (M.F.A.'13) has an essay in the latest quarterly issue of Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel. She was recently interviewed about her book The Write Crowd for Understorey Magazine. She is currently working on a series of podcasts as part of her project grant with King County. Todd McClimans' (M.A. '12) latest novel, Time To Heal (Overdue Books, 2017), the third installment in his American Epochs series, was reviewed in the February issue of VOYA, a library journal devoted to young adult literature. "McClimans paints a vivid picture of the bloodiest time in American history—the Civil War," reviewer Richard Vigdor writes. Kirkus Reviews liked it too, saying, "He writes in a sharp, energetic prose ('Kristi Connors lunged to catch a rolling can of Coca-Cola as it spread a fizzling brown wave across her desktop'), and the novel's quick pace and unusual chronology make for an engrossing read. ... lively and fun ... A well-constructed, compelling addition to an ongoing time-travel tale." �Josh Penzone's (M.A. '13) short story "Artificial Tree" appeared in Eunoia Review. Also, his short story "A Soldier's Story" kicks off the anthology The Neighbors, produced by Zimbell House Publishing. Dania Ramos' (M.A. '10) short story "Vista Eterna" was published in the anthology The Night Bazaar: Eleven Haunting Tales of Forbidden Wishes and Dangerous Desires (Northampton House Press). Her short musical Work With Us, co-written with Michael Aquino, was featured in Continuing the Conversation: An Evening of Short Plays in Response to the Election (Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre). Dania's book Who's Ju, also from Northampton House, has won or been a finalist for several international awards, including Best Hispanic YA eBook 2016, finalist for the Mariposa Prize, and now a finalist for the 2017 Sakura Prize in Japan. M.F.A. student Ronnie K. Stephens reports, "My second poetry collection, They Rewrote Themselves Legendary, is now available via my website. The collection is a fully illustrated collaborative work, pairing ekphrastic poems with artwork by Desarae Lee, and was released in late February by Timber Mouse." Timber Mouse is an independent publisher, based in Austin, Texas, that promotes the work of spoken-word artists. (pictured right) Donna Talarico (M.F.A. '10) edited Selected Memories: Five Years of Hippocampus Magazine, the first release from Hippocampus' books division. The book was officially launched with a live event and reading at AWP 2017. Also at AWP, she served on a panel about grassroots conference promotion. In spring 2017, Talarico is teaching "Marketing Books and Magazines" at Rosemont College, and personal branding workshops at Pennsylvania College of Arts and Design. Quick Links Career Development �Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. Farley Library Human Resources Jobs at Wilkes Make A Gift Online Nursing Offices & Administration Accessibility Statement Financial Aid Adobe Acrobat® Reader Registrar's Office Finance Office Investor Relations Student Work Study Jobs Veterans Services Visit Quick Links Schedule a Visit Parking Information Virtual Tour Campus Map 84 West South Street �Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 1-800-WILKES-U Contact Us Wilkes University © e © d c f � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Revise This! April 2017 - Wilkes University.pdf https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/80d1ee7d600ca40b83fd1b6905fcd6aa.pdf 471de19c99c3423be3a2c47e7cc4c74f PDF Text Text About Wilkes Home n Graduate Academics Academics n Graduate Admission & Aid Graduate Programs n Graduate Life Master's Degree Programs About Our Students n n The Arts Creative Writing MA/MFA Revise This! n Archives Spring 2018 - Revise This! Spring 2018 Revise This! 2017 2018 Revise This! November 2019 Revise This! Archives   Norman Mailer Colony Comes to Wilkes University  During the January Residency, Dr. Bonnie Culver, program director and co-founder announced the new partnership between the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing and the Norman Mailer Center. By partnering with the Norman Mailer Center, the Norman Mailer Writers Colony will now be permanently housed at Wilkes University. The Mailer Center is an organization named for the late Norman Mailer that offers workshops, grants, awards, fellowships and other activities that allow writers to express themselves while provoking discussion and calling for societal changes. This new partnership bolsters the creative writing mission to bring writing faculty to the Wilkes University campus. n 2018 n n �Lawrence Schiller, founder of the Norman Mailer Center and the Norman Mailer Writers Colony, collaborated with Norman Mailer for more than 30 years. Originally, the summer colony was held at the Mailer home in Provincetown, MA. Past instructors include faculty and board members J. Michael Lennon, Kaylie Jones, Bonnie Culver, Beverly Donofrio and Colum McCann. "Like the Norman Mailer Center, Wilkes University encourages and celebrates writers who challenge readers' perspectives on the world around them," said Schiller. "Together, Wilkes and the Center will promote writers as people of action, and seek to support those who are driven by an endless curiosity to make sense of the times in which they live." The 2018 Norman Mailer Writers Colony will be held in two weeklong sessions bookending The Pennsylvania Writers Conference in August. In week one, which will run from July 29 to August 3, students may take courses in memoir, fiction, publishing, poetry, nonfiction and self-promotion. In week two, which will run from August 4 to August 10, students may take courses in fiction, book reviewing, screenwriting, publishing, and poetry. On August 3 and 4, the Pennsylvania Writers Conference will be held on the Wilkes campus, featuring keynote speaker Andre Dubus III.           Week 1 Classes: Memoir with Beverly Donofrio Put pen to paper-or fingers to the keyboard-in this writing workshop with master �memoirist Beverly Donofrio. Discover the life-changing potential of memoir writing in a workshop designed to take you deeper into your hearts and your pasts. Instructor Beverly Donofrio creates a supportive environment to help mine and then develop your material. Telling your stories can be profound and transformative. All that is required is a strong desire and the courage to write the truth. Through the in-class prompts, overnight assignments, and sharing our work, we not only learn craft, but develop camaraderie and have fun. We may even find that what made us rage and cry now makes us laugh. Keep writing and you may even forgive life for being life. And throughout, we will have an ongoing discussion of the writing life and how to feed it outside of a workshop.    Elements of Fiction: Crisis Conflict Character with Marita Golden This fiction workshop will focus on the foundational elements of compelling fiction. As we discuss your in progress work, and do inclass exercises you'll learn how to give your characters "character," how to push them past the limits you impose on them and how to create characters who can both hurt and heal. For those writing novels and short fiction.    �        Publishing with Philip Brady Ever wanted to start your own press or literary magazine? Or are you struggling as a fledgling editor or publisher to make yours work and gain more ground in the literary landscape? This course will also give you a hands-on insider's look at the way publishing companies work. Working with Etruscan Press, a non-profit literary press that has produced over seventy-five titles in five genres since 2001, this course will focus on how to produce and market books/journals, zines, and how to run a publishing house in an increasingly competitive environment. We'll explore editorial styles, marketing plans, production schedules, budgeting, design, and event-planning. We'll look at the publishing models from a close perspective, always returning to practical questions such as: "How do things work?"..."How can I understand the process from author-to-consumer?"... "What is the right place for me in this diverse and challenging industry?" Poetry with Rashidah Ismail Abubakr We will start at the beginning, with poems that have been selected by each participant to start of a book of poems. We will discuss the various concepts of producing poems: chapbook, collection, themed, with or without visuals and look at organizing tools that can lead to a coherent body of work. Poems will be edited and �written then workshopped during the sessions.         Creative Nonfiction: Types and Techniques with J. Michael Lennon Following a brief survey of the wide variety of forms that can be fairly called creative nonfiction (memoir, various essay types, travel and place writing, reviews, narrative history, autobiography, and biography), will be a discussion of five elements of craft common to all types of creative nonfiction: imagery, voice and point of view, character, setting, and story. The session will also examine the blurred boundary lines with other genres.         Marketing Planning for Writers, Online and Off: Promotion, Publicity & More with Donna Talarico Marketing and communication planning is a crucial component to the �working writer today. In this session, you'll learn the basics of building a marketing plan, from setting SMART goals to analyzing your success. Then we'll dive deeper into the many tactics you can use, from making connections with the media and brand ambassadors to get coverage -- reviews, feature stories, etc. -- to running successful events and from managing your online persona to interacting with readers in digital spaces. We'll cover everything from Facebook pages and blogging to email marketing and social ads. This session will give you a high-level overview of the tools and techniques you can use to market your work, from promoting a single book to building general awareness for yourself as an author and expert in your field. We'll have in-class exercises to help you spark some ideas of where and how to promote your work -- no matter where you are with your project, this will be helpful in big-picture planning! Simply put: You have a great idea -- this session is about shooting that from the rooftops so others can share -- and enjoy -- your vision. Week 2: The Closer Class: A Workshop on How to Finish Your Book with Jacquelyn Mitchard You have a great concept. You know what you want to write. You know how you want to write it. You may even have a great start. But you're afraid that you'll mess with this thing for the rest of your life and it will never see publication. This workshop help you finally complete your fiction project - and help you discover what to do next on the path to publication, without sacrificing artistic integrity or neglecting the need to have a real life. Some critical questions about structure, contents, and even intention are key to writing a book you can actually finish. And there are some elements you may not have considered. �Bring pages to share in a full, frank, and nurturing critique with your fellow writers and be prepared to be overwhelmed by information - in a good way. Writing Book Reviews and Breaking into that Market with Maureen Corrigan How does one claim the cultural authority to become a book reviewer? After all, there are no dedicated graduate programs or certificates in "book reviewing;" nor is there a clear route to regular reviewing. In this course, Maureen Corrigan, who has been the book critic for the NPR program Fresh Air for thirty years, explores some of the pathways to book review publication and discusses the intellectual background and the skills that it takes to write a worthwhile review. She also gives some advice about what never to do in a book review.       Screenwriting with Ross Klavan Screen language will go deeply into how to get your vision-and your story-onto any kind of screen. Through a variety of exercises in class and as homework, we'll begin by working through the nature of images, of film's birth in still photography (instead of the novel or theater) and what subtly changes when the images begin to move. We'll then shift into the structure of storytelling through images, both conventional and alternative, and the creation of characters whose life may begin on the page but will exist, �through actors or animation, on some form of screen, large or small. A final project of a five-minute short or film segment will be written. There will be a personal meeting with the instructor on projects written in the course or previously. Proper format will be taught and the instruction will be assisted by examples from films, TV episodes and script pages.    To apply to the Norman Mailer Writers Colony at Wilkes University, please download this application. Please submit 10 pages of poetry, single-spaced, or 10-20 pages of prose or a screenplay sample, double-spaced, in the genre to which you are applying. Admission to a workshop is based primarily on your writing sample. For more information about the Norman Mailer Center or the Norman Mailer Writers Colony, please visit nmcenter.org. For more information about the Pennsylvania Writers Conference, please visit wilkes.edu/pwc. Students and alumni man the Wilkes-Etruscan booth at AWP18 in Tampa, FL. From left to right: Karla Erdman (M.A. student), Danie Watson (M.F.A. student), Pamela Turchin (M.F.A. student), Kristin Weller (M.A. student) and Patricia Florio (M.F.A. '11). Smooth Sailing: Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Attends AWP18 By Kristin Weller (M.A. student) Henry David Thoreau once said, "We are constantly invited to be who we are." Like many writers-in-progress, I have struggled with my identity. I �teach full-time. I am a wife. I am a daughter. I am a perfectionist. Making a living from writing alone is the road I have less traveled. While teaching is a great gig, a gift in many ways, teaching can create all kinds of conflict for the writer-self, not the least of which is getting the time off during the academic year to attend conferences like AWP. But as with anything else in life, the choices we make and where we choose to put our time and energy are often a reflection of our priorities, and this year, I made a commitment to put my writing ahead of all else. Thanks to a one-semester sabbatical and the student registration waivers offered to Maslow Family graduate students, I was able to make-good on my self-promise and participate in AWP18 in Tampa. The spring-like temperatures and cloudless skies of South Florida were a welcome contrast to the Pennsylvania Nor'easter I and my Wilkes colleagues left behind us. Ahead, a menu of more than 1000 panel discussions, readings, activities, signings, and keynote speeches from which to choose, all in the service of enriching the writing community. And the Book Fair! Over 800 exhibitors filled the main floor, showcasing literary presses and journals, independent publishers and freelancers, writing programs and writing residencies, poets and swag (think, free totes, buttons, pens, and big price cuts on books). Imagine the directory portion of all of your favorite writing magazines, online journals, and publishing industry books coming to life and gathering together around tables and booths in one, massive room. I'll admit that I was both overwhelmed and impressed. After registration and a quick tour of the vendor hall, I met up with cohort member Meg Hall and my mentor, Kaylie Jones. We headed over to the Marriott across the street from the Convention Center where a few dozen meeting rooms held sessions of interest. Outside of each salon and meeting room was a full-sized poster with a list of the sessions scheduled in that room throughout the weekend. We perused the menus and ended up popping into the tail-end of a panel discussion on contemporary Southern literary fiction. The panelists were discussing the ways poverty, racism, and violence permeate their works. Following their planned discussion, the panelists opened up the floor to questions. It wasn't long before questions of culture appropriation arose. We have all heard the advice to write what you know, but if you stick with the process of developing your craft, you will come to know that more often than not, we use writing to explore the questions we do not know the answers to. What stuck with me after listening to the open dialogue about writing outside of your race or experience was this: if you do the work -- read everything you can in the cultural genre your story requires, travel to and be with the people whose lives you want to represent with fidelity, and research your own personal biases alongside the historical �events relevant to your story -- than you have less chance of creating a story that most readers will view as culturally appropriated. I found this topic to be extremely relevant beyond the cannon of Southern fiction. In my own experience as a Maslow Family Graduate student, this topic has come up for discussion within several of the residency courses I have attended. Like it or not, through our work we all become ambassadors of our genres. Credibility is earned. Integrity, demonstrated. After the panel ended, Meg, Kaylie and I headed outside to look for a place to eat. The Marriott and the Convention Center are part of a Riverwalk park where pedestrians and exercise enthusiasts share sidewalks and foot bridges that run along Tampa Bay. In the center is a cafe called The Sail where Kaylie, Meg and I ran into Bill Schneider and Pamela Turchin who had just flown in from Newark, NJ. After a few laughs and some catching up, we downed our burgers before splitting up to attend different sessions and man the booth. There's so much to pick from, so having a minute to peruse the registration materials was much appreciated. I found the AWP app to be an especially useful tool for adding sessions of interest and building daily agendas. Maps, room details, program descriptions, and schedules were all built-in to the app giving me easy access to necessary information quickly. At 3:30 p.m. Kaylie and I made our way to the Book Fair floor so I could start my first shift at the Wilkes University-Etruscan Press booth. (Go ahead. Say it. You know you want to. "The (John) Wilkes Booth!" We have the best name as far as booths go.) Maslow Family graduate students and alumni can attend AWP, registration-free if we commit to volunteering to work two hours each day in the booth at AWP. Because Wilkes is a major conference sponsor, the program receives 45-60 conference registration waivers so that our students may attend. They want us there, networking and learning from and with each other. I was a little nervous about the work, but as it turned out working in the booth was fun. Working in the Wilkes-Etruscan Press booth was painless, even for anxiety-prone personality types like me. That's mostly because of the great and magical duo, Danie Watson and Pamela Turchin, who do most of the on-site, logistical heavy-lifting, and our Associate Director, Bill Schneider, who orchestrates the rest. Working with the Wilkes-Etruscan team was fun and at times, reminiscent of residency. Booth required responsibilities included things like promoting the inclusion of the Norman Mailer Writing Colony at Wilkes, along with the Pennsylvania Writers Conference dates, and of course our fabulous �MA/MFA programs, volunteers haggled over who was the most outgoing from our contingency (that would be Justin Kassab, Danie Watson, and Karla Erdman) and sent them off to wander the Book Fair, enticing conference-goers to sign up for the Old School Poetry Slam, which 2012 MFA graduate, Stanton Hancock, hosted on March 9th and 10th following the Keynote speakers. The rest of us remained at the booth to answer the questions of passersby. Honestly, this task was no burden to bear. Both our programs and our presses already have a very strong reputation amongst those shopping around for an MFA program. All we needed to do was share what we love about our writing program. Easy! Two of the messages I found myself repeating to potential students were how much our fabulous faculty and our student participants value a respectful, collaborative approach, and how accessible and supportive we all are as a literary community. Even as I was sharing these points, I was flashing back to my first residency in June of 2016 and how many times I was approached by upper-level graduate students who introduced themselves and congratulated me on entering the 501s. It happened in the dorm lobby, in the Henry Center, in the Starbucks, in the Darte before and after the evening readings. And, every faculty member made it a point to connect with each of the 18 members of my cohort over the course of those first few days - no easy task given their own packed schedules. What a difference that kind of care and attention can make, especially for a writer so wrapped up in fear, rejection, and isolation. What an antidote that kind of attention can be! At AWP, I got the chance to spend time with my mentor who has committed her time and attention to helping me develop my work and my identity as a writer. Other faculty members, like David Poyer who I hadn't really had a chance to get to know at residencies, showed up and engaged with us too. He asked about the work I and my cohort members were doing over lunch, thus giving Meg Hall, Jeff Alves and I a chance to practice pitching. The practice, like the process, never ends. Attending AWP just verified what I had already learned about our faculty: their commitment to their students and to writing is lifelong. Investing my time in these three, glorious, twelve-hour days at AWP Tampa as a writer participating in this community of peers has reaffirmed my commitment, not only to the completion of my term project, but also to my place in this community of writers. I belong, and that is enough. Kristin Weller is a Pennsylvania writer, English teacher, and a graduate student at Wilkes University. Her �essay, Life: What Writer and Teacher Can Tell You about Craft, was featured in Craft section of the May 2017 issue of Hippocampus Magazine. She earned a Writing Fellowship with the National Writing Project in 2000, an organization for which she has served as an Advisory Board member and teacherconsultant. When she's not grading eighth grade English papers or running her two boxer dogs around agility courses, she facilitated a local writing group called Write Nights in Nazareth, PA. She anticipates earning her Creative Writing Masters degree in 2018.      Spring into Writing: Community Workshops Introduction to Fiction Writing From flash fiction to fullfledged short stories, Introduction to Fiction Writing covers the basics of storytelling and the revision process. The workshop focuses on the basic elements of the genre and provides participants with a supportive environment where they can explore their literary interests and experiment with character, plot, and language. Open to beginning writers and those looking to hone their writing skills, the workshop asks participants to come with an open mind and be ready to read, write, revise, and repeat. Adult learners of any age may register for this workshop Meetings: Tuesdays - 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. - Kirby Hall, Room 108 �April 3, 10, 17, 24, May 1 and 8 Cost: $65.00 for the entire series Instructor: Francisco Tutella   Memoir: Many Ways to Tell Your Story This class will explore writing memoir by using a variety of prompts and artifacts to mine your memories, from recipes and photos to letters, diaries and family heirlooms. Adult learners of any age may register for this workshop. Meetings: Tuesdays - 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. - Breiseth Hall, Room 209 April 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8 and 15 Cost: $65.00 for the entire series Instructor: Vicki Mayk       Preparing You and Your Manuscript for Publication This five-week workshop is designed for adult learners who are interested in the submission process and developing the skills to enter the world of publishing. Participants will be provided an overview of how to prepare literary projects for submission to publishers. Through a variety of lectures, workshop exercises, and group �discussions, participants will discover what it takes to prepare themselves - and their work - for consideration. A comprehensive look at industry standards and best practices include crafting a project synopsis, drafting a query letter, understanding the author questionnaire process, creating a thumbnail, keynote, and writing the book description. Participants do not need a completed manuscript for this workshop series.  Meetings: Wednesdays - 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. - Breiseth Hall, Room 211 April 11, 18, 25, May 2 and 9 Cost: $65.00 for the entire series Instructor: Bill Schneider Playwriting How to Write a Short One-Act or 10-Minute Play CURTAIN UP! Have you ever imagined your story on a stage? This workshop will teach ways to write a short play in our first session. In our second session, you will hear your short play read alive and envisioned. Bring yourself and your own best characters wanting a stage to our playwriting workshop. This workshop is designed for adult learners. Session 1: Learning how to write a play - short one-act or a 10-min play and assignment to do so. Session 2: Bring your assignment to workshop, and we read together, critique, and provide feedback.    Meetings: Saturdays - 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Kirby Hall, Room 108 April 21 and 28 Cost: $65.00 for the entire series Instructor: Jan Quackenbush   �Faculty News Gregory Fletcher's short play Mapplethorpe's Flowers was produced by Off-Off-Broadway's Artistic New Directions during the first two weeks of March in their Eclectic Evening of Shorts XI at the Theatre 54 in New York City. Lenore Hart and David Poyer taught at a writing retreat on Ossabaw Island from February 22-28. Lenore was the fiction instructor, presented workshops and provided one-on-one manuscript consultations, and David presented publishing workshops and spoke on a larger panel of regional editors and publishers. They both gave evening readings during the writing retreat. Juanita Rockwell's libretto for composer Douglas Knehans' chamber opera, Backwards from Winter, will premiere at Symphony Space, NYC on May 25, presented by The Center for Contemporary Opera and directed by Jennifer Williams. This monodrama for soprano, electric cello and video, traces a woman's year with her beloved, beginning in deep winter where she is in grief over his death, backwards through the seasons to the heart-opening birth of their love in spring. Juanita's play with songs, Between Trains, was recently published by Blue Moon Plays, and she was named a VCCA Fellow with her first residency at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Student/Alum News Amye Archer (M.F.A. '11) has co-edited an anthology about body image titled My Body, My Words, which was released March 15th from Big Table Publishing. Several Wilkes faculty members and alums have essays in the collection including Bev Donofrio and Kaylie Jones. Aurora D. Bonner (M.A. '17) recently had an excerpt from her memoir published in the January/February issue of Hippocampus Magazine. One of her essays, "The Night we Ate Moussaka," will also appear in the April publication of Under the Gum Tree. Brian Fanelli's (M.F.A. '10) essay, "Lessons on the Environment: Revisiting Robert Bly," was recently published by The Schuylkill Valley Journal. He also has three poems in the anthology, Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trump's America(NYQ Books). Proceeds from the anthology benefit the National Immigration Law Center. Brian recently joined 4squarereview as a staff book reviewer. Richard Fellinger (M.F.A. '10) published an op-ed in the Lancaster paper arguing for a better brand of national politics. �R. Anthony Giamusso's (M.A. '15) debut scifi/fantasy novel Under A Veil Of Godswas published by BHCpress/Indigo on March 8, 2018. Tyler Grimm (M.F.A., '13) has accepted a teaching appointment in the Composition Program at University of Delaware. He has also begun writing craft columns for Hippocampus Magazine, the first of which, "Hooking Your Students, Hooking Yourself" was published in September 2017. A subsequent column published in January 2018, "The Trauma Museum" has received considerable praise. Gerald Gurka (M.A. '07) wrote and directed The Gold Wrapping Paper, a play that was performed on Dec 24, 2017 in Larksville, Pa. His newest play Relics of the Passion, both written & directed by Gerka was performed on March 23, 2018 in Larksville, Pa. His young readers novel Freddie Foodmore's Menu of Unsavory Events will be published with Overdue Books. Monique Antonette Lewis (M.F.A '12) has three flash fiction stories from her collection Looking for Mr. Wrong that have been published / are forthcoming in lit zines: "Shall We Dance" (Polarity eMagazine, sister publication of PoetryBay, Winter 2017) and "A Waste of Your Damn Time" and "A Mr. Right" (both forthcoming this year in American Writers Review). Her essay "How You Came to Love Me" will also be published in the anthology My Body, My Words  (Big Table Publishing, March 2018). Mark Levy (M.A. '08) has joined the Denver law firm of Block45Legal as Intellectual Property Counsel; and a book of his essays, entitled Trophy Envy, is scheduled to be published this April. The essays are transcriptions of his tri-weekly broadcasts on the public radio show, Weekend Radio with Robert Conrad. Lori A. May (M.F.A.'13) has an essay included in an upcoming anthology, Writing Creative Writing: Essays from the Field, scheduled for May 2018 publication with Dundurn Press. Her first novel, The Profiler (2005), has been reissued in Australia with publisher Mills and Boon. This spring, Lori is speaking and reading at events throughout Washington, California, and Nevada. �Michael Nixon (M.A. '15) had a chapter from his memoir, a work (still in progress) that was his thesis project, published in the January/February issue of Hippocampus Magazine. The piece was also a semi-finalist in their "Remember in November" competition. Christoph Paul's (M.F.A. '17) press CLASH Books recently put out the poetry collection If You Died Tomorrow I would Eat Your Corpse, the anthology for pre-order Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana Del Rey and Sylvia Plath, and the pre-order for the magazine CLASH Magazine: Issue #1. CLASH Books had a table again at AWP 2018 and had an offsite reading. As an author, his book A Confederacy of Hot Dogs was featured in Powell's small press section, he sold a story to the anti-fascist anthology Engage! forthcoming from King Shot Press, and found a home for his poetry collection At Least I Get You < In My Art with Rooster Republic Press which is to be published in the summer of 2018. Sara Shalom Scharrer's (M.A. '15) short story "Means of Escape" was published on January 24 in STORGY online magazine. C.A. Smith (M.A. '11) released her first book LongNeck Bottles under the pseudonym Phoenix Ash. She also has a podcast called "Life As P" that is available via iTunes, Google Play and iHeart Radio.   Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. Farley Library Human Resources Jobs at Wilkes Online Nursing Offices & Administration Accessibility Statement Make A Gift �Financial Aid Adobe Acrobat® Reader Registrar's Office Finance Office Investor Relations Student Work Study Jobs Veterans Services Visit Quick Links Schedule a Visit Parking Information Virtual Tour Campus Map 84 West South Street Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 1-800-WILKES-U Contact Us Wilkes University © e © d c f � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Revise This! Archive Spring 2018 - Wilkes University.pdf https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/4b33c36059fc45ae759c8e3af383a111.pdf e5a7c5cfae37b0189ea88dfa6770eba9 PDF Text Text About Wilkes Home n Graduate Academics Academics n Graduate Admission & Aid Graduate Programs n Graduate Life Master's Degree Programs About Our Students n n The Arts Creative Writing MA/MFA Revise This! n Archives Spring 2019 - Revise This! Spring 2019 Revise This! 2017 2018 Revise This! November 2019 Revise This! Archives  Left to right: Dr. Patrick F. Leahy (President, Wilkes University), Mary Poth (M.A. student), Dr. Nancy McKinley (Faculty Member) The Faculty and Alumni Scholarship is Awarded At the closing banquet of the January 2019 Residency, Dr. Nancy McKinley, fiction and creative nonfiction writer and founding faculty member, presented Mary Poth with the program’s inaugural award of the annual Faculty and Alumni Scholarship. This newly established scholarship is awarded to one or more incoming students at the M.A. n 2018 n n �level of the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing based on a writing sample and essay submitted as part of the application materials. The scholarship recipient is determined by a three-member faculty committee who recommends students to Dr. Bonnie Culver, program director and co-founder. This scholarship is funded entirely through the generous donations of faculty and alumni. Mary is pursuing her M.A. thesis in fiction with Dr. Robert Mooney as her mentor. She is from Lovettsville, VA and joined the Wilkes community in June, 2018. Congratulations Mary Poth! Marlon James Releases His Latest Novel Marlon James (M.A. ‘06) is having another amazing year. His latest release, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Riverhead Books, 2019), takes us on a fantastical ride with Tracker, a mercenary enlisted to search for a missing boy. The first novel in The Dark Star Trilogy, Black Leopard, Red Wolf has skyrocketed to the New York Times Bestseller List. James has also been featured in recent articles in The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. The critically acclaimed Wilkes alum is the author of three additional novels, including: A Brief History of Seven Killings (Riverhead Books, 2015), winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize; John Crow’s Devil (Akashic Books, 2005), National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; and The Book of Night Women (Riverhead Books, 2009). James teaches creative writing and is the writer in residence at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. 17th Annual Norman Mailer Society Conference The 17th Annual Norman Mailer Society Conference will take place at Wilkes University October 10-12, 2019 with the theme: Mailer on Politics, Public Life, and Pop Culture. The Norman Mailer Society calls for papers that address any of the above categories plus those that help celebrate the 40-year anniversary of The Executioner’s Song, the 50-year anniversary of Of a Fire on the Moon, and the 60-year anniversary of Advertisements of Myself. Conference highlights include: Keynote speaker Maggie Mailer, youngest daughter of Norman Mailer A reception to celebrate the opening of the Norman Mailer Room and Collection. This room, housed in the Farley Library, is a research/Mailer scholar’s dream. It is a replica of Mailer’s last studio in Provincetown that includes his private library, manuscripts and revisions, dating from 1984, and his studio furniture A reading from The Time of Our Time Screening of the film The Executioner’s Song �And more…… To submit a proposal for the conference, please email the following to Maggie McKinley and Mike Lennon by June 1, 2019: 1. 50-word biographical statement 2. 150-200 word abstract of the proposed presentation 3. Indication of A/V Requirements Hotel accommodations will be at Genetti’s Best Western, Public Square, Wilkes-Barre, PA at $89 per night (from October 9 through October 13). The hotel offers free shuttle from the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton airport, hot buffet breakfast, parking, and is a two-block walk to campus. More details regarding hotel reservations and conference registration are forthcoming. Call for Submissions: The Norman Mailer Society Graduate Writing Award The Norman Mailer Society invites submissions for its first annual Graduate Writing Award, which recognizes high-quality graduate student work about or inspired by the work of Norman Mailer. Eligible entries include academic papers or creative pieces composed by current graduate students. Submissions should be 10-15 pages, doublespaced, in 12 point Times New Roman font, and should be sent to: Maggie McKinley, President of the Norman Mailer Society. THE DEADLINE IS JUNE 1, 2019 The winner of the Norman Mailer Society Graduate Writing Award receives: a $500 cash award a complimentary one-year membership in the Mailer Society, which includes that year’s issue of The Mailer Review an opportunity to work with the editor of The Mailer Review to publish a revised version of the essay or creative piece Executive board members of the Norman Mailer Society will evaluate all entries and notify entrants of their decision. Graduate students are also welcome to submit proposals for the annual Norman Mailer Conference, which will be held at Wilkes University from October 10-12, 2019. Students who present at the conference will receive a $100 travel grant. Proposals for all presentations should be sent to Maggie McKinley. Faculty News �Faculty member Greg Fletcher’s first YA novel, Other People’s Crazy, has finished pre-production at Northampton House Press against a publication date of June, 2019. In a high school in suburban Arizona, the biggest kid in his sophomore class is being bullied by the smallest. With no dad, best friend, or girlfriend, Brandon’s life feels like pure hopeless chaos. But thanks to his crazy single mom, a stray dog, a bronco-busting hairdresser, a random left turn, and boomerang karma from the Universe, Brandon has a chance to turn his life in a new direction. Chaos, or Choice? They’re both in the mix of crazy at Mesa Verde High. Look for it on the sale table at Barnes & Noble at this summer’s residency! Beverly Donofrio is thrilled that her personal essay “Meanness,” which appeared in Brevity has been nominated for inclusion in the Best Essays of SPACE  by Brevity for 2018 Best American Essays and will be included in the Best of Brevity anthology. Her personal essay “Bad Memorial Day,” which appeared in Cagibi, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.  Jean Klein is pleased to announce that Blue Moon has licensed two productions from members of the Wilkes family so far this year. Distant Survivors, a play based on the Holocaust poetry of William Heyen (Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Advisory Board Member), adapted by June Prager, ran for eleven performances in February at Zeider’s American Dream Theater in Virginia Beach to responsive crowds. Royal Tea, a play by Cindy Dlugolecki (M.A. ‘13) will be performed at St. Peter the Apostle High School in Alberta, Canada. (Dates TBA) J. Michael Lennon will have a review-essay on the first four novels of Pottsville, PA novelist, John O’Hara, coming out in the (London) Times Literary Supplement next month. O’Hara wrote perhaps the finest novel of Southeast, Pennsylvania, Appointment in Samarra, in 1935. A classic. Also, he has a review of Philip Brady’s Phantom Signs: The Muse in Universe City forthcoming in Hippocampus. Nancy McKinley’s novel-in-stories, St. Christopher on Pluto, has been accepted by West Virginia University Press, with publication slated in 2020.   Lenore Hart was recently awarded an international writing Fellowship at the Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus in Germany. Along with a composer and two visual artists, she will be spending six weeks as 2019’s Writing Fellow in a studio and apartment on the grounds of the residential palace built in 1890. The palace is also a museum, concert and lecture hall, and theater. The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts �offers an annual exchange residency for the four varied types of artists. Lenore will arrive on June 1 and stay until July 15, working on the proposed project they accepted; a collection of contemporary short stories based on the darker original versions of German fairy tales and Greek myths. There will be an open house at the Oberpfalzer museum and their studios in the Kunstlerhaus on June 30. She is really looking forward to this total-immersion experience in a foreign setting and already desperately trying to improve her language skills! Alumni and Student News Robert Antinozzi (M.F.A. ‘14) and Alyssa Waugh (M.F.A. ‘14) started their own publishing company: Blind Faith Books. Their first anthology is entitled I AM STRENGTH: True Stories of Everyday Superwomen. Two thirds of the book's proceeds benefit No Means No Worldwide and Girls Inc. The book includes essays, poems, and art by many Wilkes alums as well as other women from all over the U.S. The second book Blind Faith published, Drowning Back to Life, a collection of poetry by Elise Emersyn, tells a story through poetry of falling in love with herself and breaking toxic cycles. They are currently accepting submissions for the next anthology: I Am More Than my Addiction. In additional news, Alyssa’s book, Hell's Laughter and Other Spooky Tales, is out in paperback and available on Amazon and her poem, "Sure" was also recently published on Writing in a Woman's Voice. Aurora Bonner (M.F.A ’18) had an essay published through Assay: Journal of Nonfiction Studies in October, 2018. Additionally, she published two book reviews, one through the Colorado Review on The Jaws of Life by Laura Leigh Morris and one through Brevity Magazine on Dig: A Personal Prehistoric Journey, by Sam Chiarelli (M.F.A. ’16). Caryn DeVincenti (M.F.A ’16), aka Dana Ross (pen name) had her first book, Full Girlfriend Experience, a romantic suspense novel birthed through her M.F.A classes at Wilkes, released through The Wild Rose Press on February 18, 2019. Readers can purchase it on Amazon and Barnes & Noble (online). Brian Fanelli's (M.F.A. ‘10) essay, "Rethinking Early Horror Cinema: Gender, Female Empowerment, and Sexuality in Nosferatu, Frankenstein, and Bride of Frankenstein," appeared in the fall issue of Schuylkill Valley Journal, both print and online. Additionally, his interview, "Channeling the Dark Muse: An Interview with Eric Morago, Editor of Dark Ink," was published in January by the website Horror Homeroom. He also has published and forthcoming poetry in Evening Street Review, Italian Americana, and The Paterson Literary Review. �Patricia Florio (M.F.A. ’11) of San Fedele Press and American Writers Review was featured in an interview in the August, 2018 issue of Boston Voyager. She will also have copies of the 2018 literary anthology of American Writers Review at the NewPages table, along with information on taking 2019 submissions at the AWP Conference in Portland, Oregon. Gerald J. Gurka (M.A. ’07) had his article, “Second Sunday of Lent,” published in King’s College Lenten Reflection Series Calendarfor Sunday, March 17, 2019. He is also the author and director of a new play entitled, A Holy Land Tour of the Passion, to be performed on Friday, April 12, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. in St. John’s Church, 126 Nesbitt Street, Larksville, PA. The performance is open to the public. He is currently writing “Freddie Foodmore’s Menu of Unsavory Events,” a Young Readers Story for Northampton Press. Anne Henry (M.F.A ‘11) is thrilled to report that her story, “That’s It, That’s the News,” will be included in Air: A Radio Anthology published by Books by Hippocampus (coming Spring 2019). True stories from radio in its heyday! Pre-orders accepted on the website. She is also happy to announce that her story, “The Cold War,” was accepted for publication in the next issue of American Writers Review (Summer, 2019). Joshua Horwitz (M.A. ‘16) has formed a media company CellCinema that helps movie makers, documentarians and activists make cinema quality productions using current model cell phones with high end audio and specialized lenses. They are currently accepting interns for the Spring/Summer. Jennifer Jenkins (M.F.A. ‘17) has published "The Secret Door" in the Winter 2019 edition of Up North Lit. It is a chapter from her forthcoming novel, American Bourbon. Nichole Kanney (M.F.A. '15) ran a screenwriting workshop in February to support Readathon, a fundraiser that promotes literacy for the students at Richmond Friends School. She also participated in Warp and Woof, a storytelling event for Wayne County Indiana. Nichole has joined the Wayne Writes committee, which hosts an annual weekend writing conference in the summer. Stay tuned for more! Bibiana Krall (M.F.A ‘18) is among the poets chosen for the 2019 Poetry Leaves Exhibition that will be displayed on buildings, inside City Hall, and in the library during the month of May all across Waterford Twp., Michigan. The exhibition was launched in 2014 as a �way to celebrate National Poetry Month. A grant from the Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs funded the project in the beginning. Bibiana’s poem “Little Universe” will also be published in an anthology later on this year. She’s just wrapped up a Writing Fellowship with Deep Center in Savannah, Georgia as a mentor in The Young Author Project where she taught Creative Writing to an incredible group of inner-city teens (Go Team Hess!) with a focus on diversity and empowerment. Ginger Marcinkowski, (M.F.A. ‘11) has been chosen by Kingsbrae International Residence for the Arts (KIRA) for a month-long August residency in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada. She will have the opportunity to write on the seaside property of Kingsbrae Gardens. Visiting artists are required to engage with the community and partner with Kingsbrae Garden which is located steps away from the residence and studio. Applications were open to a range of disciplines and types of artists including, the visual arts, music/composition, new media, and interdisciplinary arts. Artists from all levels in their career who exhibited a strong professional work ethic and a collaborative attitude were considered for this very competitive honor. Marcinkowski will be working on a new collection of linked short stories during her residency. Vicki Mayk’s (M.F.A. ‘13) nonfiction book, The Friends of Owen Thomas (working title) will be published by Beacon Press in 2020. Her personal essay, “Dayparts,” will be included in the anthology Air, publishing in March, 2019 from Books by Hippocampus.   Sara Pisak (M.A. Student) was named a Staff Reviewer for Glass: A Journal of Poetry. Sara's review of Sonia Greenfield's chapbook, American Parable appeared online January 17 and her review of Adrienne Novy's chapbook, Crowd Surfing With God, was published in the magazine's March issue as well as online. Sara's review of Anne Graue's poetry collection, Fig Tree in Winter: Found Poetry From Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, was also featured in the Litstyle section of Five:2:One Magazine. Sara's work can also be found in the sixteenth issue of Boston Accent for a poetry/art collaborative feature entitled, "20/20" and "Prints." Oliver Reilly (M.F.A. ‘13) was recently hired by Lehigh Carbon Community College as an instructor of Literature and Composition. Joseph Schwartzburt’s (M.F.A. ’13) non-fiction piece entitled “Gavin and the Paci Pirate” was published in Akashic Books’ Terrible Twosdays Online Series on January 8, 2019.   �Nisha Sharma (M.F.A. ’13) received a Library Journal starred review for The Takeover Effect, a contemporary romance releasing on April 2, 2019. The Takeover Effect is the first in a trilogy published by Avon Impulse. Melanie Simms (M.A. Student) is promoting her third book, Life Signs and Fortune Cookies, published by Sunbury Press out of Mechanicsburg, PA, released in the winter of 2018. She appeared on a WVIA in an interview with Mindy Cronk on February 28, which will go out on the next Art Scene program in March. In addition, she recently appeared on ABC 27 in Harrisburg for the Author Spotlight and with Tory Gates Brown Posey Press Show. She was also selected as one of the judges in the poetry category for the Pennwriters. Ora Smith (M.A. ’17) is pleased to announce the November 2018 release of her children’s picture book, A Christmas Story of Light. She will write a blog about her amazing experience writing and illustrating the book for the pre-holiday issue of The Write Life. Alan N. Yount (M.A. ’18) will be part of the Tenth Anniversary Story Slam at the Woodstock Bookfest on Thursday, March 28, 2019. The theme of the Story Slam is “it’s about time,” and Alan will answer that burning question…How do you know when it’s about time to leave a sex club? AWP 2019 The 2019 AWP Conference & Bookfair will be held at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon from March 27 – 30, 2018. In Portland, swing by these sessions and support the Wilkes CW family, including program partners Akashic Books and Etruscan Press: Ibrahim Ahmad (Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing and Akashic Books) Can I Pick Your Brain? The Fine Line Between Giving Back and Getting Paid Friday, March 29, 2018 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. B117-119 Oregon Convention Center Level 1 The right connections in publishing can jumpstart your career and make the journey more enjoyable. But there is a fine line when asking for a favor (or a freebie) and networking. This panel looks at how emerging �writers can gracefully navigate the art of "the ask" and how established authors can balance their time and effort and meaningful connections. Five publishing insiders share secrets of effective networking without looking self-interested—and when to say no without looking unsupportive. Kazim Ali (The Disappearance of Seth, Etruscan Press) Reinventing the Wheel: The Tradition of Innovation in Poetry Friday, March 29, 2019 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Portland Ballroom 256 Oregon Convention Center Level 2 Sidney famously writes, "And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way" ("Astrophel and Stella"). However, one would only need to read Homer, Virgil, and Dante, the letters between Wordsworth and Coleridge or Moore and Bishop, to recognize the long tradition of poets mentoring and inspiring other poets. The poets will challenge the notion that tradition and innovation are at odds by revealing how specific poems influenced them and led them to better understand different poetic elements. Kazim Ali (The Disappearance of Seth, Etruscan Press) Fifty Years of FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Saturday, March 30, 2019 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. B115 Oregon Convention Center Level 1 Since 1969, FIELD Magazine has been known as one of the country's leading journals of contemporary poetry and poetics. In 2019, FIELD will publish its 100th and final issue. This panel, featuring two founding editors and three later additions, will discuss the magazine's history and values, including its annual symposium of essays on the work of a major poet, its commitment to translation, and its openness to a wide variety of voices, both established and emerging. Laurie Jean Cannady (Crave: Sojourn of a Hungry Soul, Etruscan Press) and Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Faculty) #MeToo, Girlhood:Writing and Subverting Childhood Sexual Violence Narratives Thursday, March 28, 2019 �3 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. E145 Oregon Convention Center Level 1 Writers discuss creating narratives of girlhood sexual trauma, share influences and craft advice, and offer strategies for overcoming the challenges of writing these stories. The writers on this panel create works that subvert common victim narratives—via humor, style, non-linearity, narrator agency, lack of disclosure, and more—as well as examine the intersections of gender, race, class, inherited trauma, and sexual identity on narratives of sexual violence. Laurie Jean Cannady (Crave: Sojourn of a Hungry Soul, Etruscan Press) and Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Faculty) Author Signing Thursday, March 28, 2019 4:15 p.m. – 5 p.m. Booth 3031 – AWP Bookfair Robert Eastwood (Romer, Etruscan Press) Author Signing Friday, March 29, 2019 10 a.m. – 11 a.m. Booth 3031 – AWP Bookfair Stanton Hancock (M.F.A. ‘12) AWP Open Mic and Old School Slam Thursday, March 28, 2019 and Friday, March 29, 2018 B113 10 p.m. to 12 Midnight Oregon Convention Center Level 1 AWP welcomes students to return to the roots of Slam! Open mic special guests and then undergraduate and graduate students partake in a hardcore-break-your-heart-strut-out-the-good-stuff slam competition. Students are welcome to sign up to participate on Friday, March 29, 2019 and Thursday, March 28, 2019 at the Wilkes University/Etruscan Press booth and read original pieces (three minutes or less with no props) at the Slam later that night. Sponsors: Wilkes University and Etruscan Press. Patricia Horvath (All the Diference, Etruscan Press) �Rewriting History: Why It's Not Okay to Fictionalize Our Memories Friday, March 29, 2019 9 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. B114 Oregon Convention Center Level 1 Every so often, literary scandals seem to surface, particularly when it comes to memoirs. Is there an unspoken code of ethics that exists for memoirists and essayists? Or is it something deeper, something psychological that gives birth to the betrayal we feel upon discovering that a nonfiction writer has invented a character, setting, or memory? In this panel, nonfiction writers discuss the difficulty in cultivating memories while managing this genre's ethical demands and expectations. Patricia Horvath (All the Diference, Etruscan Press) Author Signing Friday, March 29, 2019 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. Booth 3031 – AWP Bookfair David Lazar (Who's Afraid of Helen of Troy: An Essay on Love, Etruscan Press) Que savent-ils?: What Classic Essays Can Teach Contemporary Essayists Thursday, March 28, 2019 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. B114 Oregon Convention Center Level 1 When's the last time you sat down with an essay by Lamb? Or cracked open The Rambler? Maybe not recently enough. With so many exciting new modes of the essay being written today, it can be easy to forget those of the past, but writers like Montaigne, Rousseau, Hazlitt, and Woolf have more bearing on contemporary essayists than you might think. This diverse panel of essayists writing in a variety of sub-genres shows how the "classics" inspire them—as perhaps they will inspire you, too. Paul Lisicky (The Burning House, Etruscan Press) Endings for the End Times? Thursday, March 28, 2019 4:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. Portland Ballroom 255 Oregon Convention Center �Level 2 As we reach the concluding lines of our own works, current ailments in the body politic may bend us toward chaos and despair. At the same time, ever-present narrative and commercial pressures may drive us toward neatly resolved, even uplifting, endings. How do we craft final notes that imply light and dark, open and closed, emotional and intellectual complexity? We discuss struggles and strategies for endings that feel satisfying for readers, and yet true to the work, the moment, and ourselves. Paul Lisicky (The Burning House, Etruscan Press) Am I Really Going to Do This Until I Die? Friday, March 29, 2019 4:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. Portland Ballroom 256 Oregon Convention Center Level 2 The longer a person teaches workshop, the more prone he or she is to burn out; after all, instructors tend to use the same format semester after semester, and students tend to need the same advice. How can instructors keep workshops feeling relevant and energized? Are there new models that might reinvigorate our students and ourselves? This panel, featuring undergraduate and graduate writing instructors, will address strategies to keep everyone engaged, down to the most exhausted teacher. Shara McCallum (Poems and Their Making, Etruscan Press) Boulevard 35th Anniversary & 100 Issues Reading Saturday, March 30, 2019 4:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. B116 Oregon Convention Center Level 1 Founded in 1984, Boulevard magazine celebrates 100 issues and thirtyfive years of continuously publishing the finest in contemporary voices in fiction, poetry, and definitive essays on the arts and culture. Featuring writers from across our thirty-five years, this reading reflects Boulevard's mission to present a variegated yet coherent ensemble of creative and critical writing by both emerging and established writers. J. D. Schrafenberger (Saint Joe's Passion, Etruscan Press) Impact and Empathy: Service-Learning and Creative Writing Friday, March 29, 2019 �10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. D139-140 Oregon Convention Center Level 1 Service-learning and community engagement not only provide student writers with real-world experiences, applied skills, and opportunities for personal growth, but their empathy and perspectives are expanded in ways that transform the creative process. Teachers from various backgrounds and institutions discuss the practical challenges and unique benefits of service-learning in the creative writing classroom, including work with veterans, oceanographers, food co-ops, and refugee organizations. J. D. Schrafenberger (Saint Joe's Passion, Etruscan Press) Changing of the Guard: Editors on Inclusion and Diversity in Literary Journals Saturday, March 30, 2019 3 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Portland Ballroom 255 Oregon Convention Center Level 2 The VIDA Count is an indispensable measure of gender diversity in literary journal publications. While the numbers layout disparities within this community, the question remains: how can we increase contributor and staff diversity in areas such as race, sexual identity/orientation, and disability? Where is the line between diversity and tokenism? This panel of literary journal editors will share their strides, missteps, and questions on inclusive staff and contributor practices. Tim Seibles (Fast Animal and One Turn Around the Sun, Etruscan Press) and Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Program Advisory Board Member) Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology Reading Thursday, March 28, 2019 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Portland Ballroom 256 Oregon Convention Center Level 2 Eco-justice poetry embodies justice, culture, and the environment. It is poetry born of ecological and social crisis, poetry that holds memory, fed by a wealth of cultural traditions, urgent in our time. Come listen to contributing poets read from and discuss the ground-breaking Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, as each discusses their approach to writing in these troubled times and the traditions that feed their work. �Tim Seibles (Fast Animal and One Turn Around the Sun, Etruscan Press) and Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Program Advisory Board Member) How we need another soul to cling to: Writing Love Poems in Difficult Times Saturday, March 30, 2019 3 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. D139-140 Oregon Convention Center Level 1 When the news feels like a daily onslaught, it's hard to believe writing a poem can matter—let alone a love poem. Here, five poets will share their own love poems and discuss how writing about love also allows them to explore everything from racism to climate change to queerness to personal grief, then offer strategies of how others might do the same. For how better to know why resistance is worth it? In this panel, we'll discuss not just what we're fighting against but what we're fighting for. Ronnie K. Stephens (M.F.A. ’18)(The Kaleidoscope Sisters, Kaylie Jones Books) Author Signing Thursday, March 28, 2019 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Booth 3031 – AWP Bookfair Daneen Wardrop (Silk Road, Etruscan Press) Author Signing Friday, March 29, 2019 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. Booth 3031 – AWP Bookfair For the full AWP19 schedule, visit the AWP Conference Schedule. Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Make A Gift �Online Nursing Programs E.S. 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Archives Spring 2019 - Wilkes University.pdf https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/058fc0422bcedddeb2eacc3a722d0eea.pdf 12db63ec4f31f091746d5afb2a73ffed PDF Text Text About Wilkes Home n Graduate Academics Academics n Graduate Admission & Aid Graduate Programs n Graduate Life Master's Degree Programs About Our Students n n The Arts Creative Writing MA/MFA Revise This! n Archives Revise This - August 2009 Revise This! 2017 2018 REVISE THIS ARCHIVES Revise This! November 2019 Contents: Norman Mailer's Home Transformed to Writer's Colony | Lawrence Schiller Joins Advisory Board Jeff Talarigo Makes Noteable Book List Student Profile: Alysha Haran | Faculty Notes |  Student Notes Norman Mailer's Home Transformed to Writer's Colony Brick Dedicated to Wilkes Revise This! Archives n 2009 n n �Prior to Norman Mailer’s death in 2007, his friends and colleagues, J. Michael Lennon and Lawrence Schiller, wanted to do something to honor his legacy. Lennon and Schiller, both advisory board members of Wilkes University’s Graduate Creative Writing Program, contemplated having a chair at a university endowed in Mailer’s name. But when Mailer seemed uninterested in the proposal, Lennon, Schiller and Mailer’s family decided to launch the Norman Mailer Writers Colony at Mailer’s house in Provincetown, Mass. Mailer, the first advisory board member of the creative writing program, and his wife, novelist Norris Church Mailer, started coming to Provincetown in 1983. They spent much more time there throughout the 1990s, according to Schiller, executive director of the colony.  “The house had become part of the town’s cultural heritage,” Schiller said. “Norman often said that Provincetown had become for him what Key West and Cuba were for Hemingway.” The colony is fitting to Mailer’s legacy because he regularly provided guidance to beginning writers and always wrote back to them if they sent him a letter, according to Lennon, Mailer’s biographer. Writers will now have the chance to stay at his house and work one-on-one with wellpublished writers and editors through the fellowship program and workshops. “He always felt that as a writer, he had to give back and should never ignore an emerging writer,” said Lennon. He added that when Mailer’s house was cleaned out last summer, hundreds of manuscripts by other writers were found.   The first seven fellows accepted to the colony will arrive at the house on July 5. William Kennedy, also an advisory board member of the creative writing program, Don DeLillo Doris Kearns Goodwin, and editors from The New Yorker, Playboy, The New York Review of Books and Random House Publishers will be there to offer writing advice and discuss their careers.   The workshops are a separate program from the fellows and require a payment from participants. These short courses are geared towards intermediate and advanced writers and have specializations such as writing biographies and new journalism.  What the workshops have in common, however, is that they all incorporate Mailer’s work or different aspects of his life in the curriculum. They will be taught by people who knew Mailer, including Lennon and Kaylie Jones, a fiction faculty member of the creative writing �program. “I loved Norman and I am proud to be involved in this project,” said Jones. “I’ll be teaching a week-long workshop on memoir writing. I have wonderful students and am looking forward to the experience.” In addition, the colony will also give annual awards to emerging writers. In association with the Provincetown Arts Press, the colony presented the first ever Normal Mailer Cape Cod Writing Award for Exceptional Writing to Salvatore Scibona on June 6. Scibona is the author of The End, a finalist for a National Book Award. The colony, in collaboration with the National Council of Teachers of English, will also sponsor the Norman Mailer National Writing Awards for college and high school students.  For more information about the colony, visit www.nmwcolony.org, or www.wilkes.edu/creativewriting. Lawrence Schiller Joins Advisory Board Lawrence Schiller Novelist, photojournalist, screenwriter and director Lawrence Schiller is the latest member to join the Advisory Board for the Graduate Creative Writing Program of Wilkes University.  Schiller grew up outside of San Diego, Calif. and has worked for Life magazine, Paris Match, The Sunday Times, Newsweek, The Saturday Evening Post and other publications as a photojournalist. He was also a close friend to Norman Mailer, the program’s first ever advisory board member, and is currently the executive director of the Norman Mailer Writers Colony in Provincetown, Mass. He was asked to join the advisory board by program co-founder and advisory board member J. Michael Lennon. “Mike Lennon, who has been a close friend of mine for a number of years, introduced me to this aspect of education, which I was not �involved in first-hand,” said Schiller. “As time went on, Mike thought my ideas could aid the university, even though I don’t come from a strict education background.” “In all ways, Mr. Schiller represents the ideal Advisory Board member,” said Program Director Bonnie Culver. “Our program is designed for working, producing writers. Mr. Mailer advised us at the beginning of the program to make this program less about a degree and all about the craft and business of writing. Our graduating students have their theses read by outside readers who are agents, editors, publishers, or producers such as Mr. Schiller. It is that industry hands-on learning that makes our M.A./M.F.A. unique.” Along with writing his own novels, Schiller has worked with other writers on their novels, including Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song. He has also directed seven motion pictures and miniseries for television. The adaptation of The Executioner’s Song and Peter the Great won Emmys. He is also a consultant to NBC news and has written for the New Yorker. In addition, Schiller serves on the executive board of the Norman Mailer Writers Colony.  Jeff Talarigo Makes Notable Book List Jeff Talarigo Wilkes-Barre, Penn. – Jeff Talarigo, a fiction faculty member of Wilkes University’s Graduate Creative Writing Program, landed on the American Library Association’s Notable Book List of 2009 for The Ginseng Hunter, his second novel.  The winners were chosen by the Notable Books Council, which includes librarians and academics from across the country. The award makes available to readers a list of 25 books of fiction, nonfiction and poetry that the council considers to be well-written and important. “I would say five out of my ten favorite novels are on past lists. Having my �name even mentioned amongst these people is a great honor,” Talarigo said. Authors of the selected titles will be invited to speak at the Library Tastes Breakfast at the ALA Annual Conference in July. Talarigo, a resident of Boston, says if he is invited, he will definitely attend. The Ginseng Hunter takes place in contemporary China, along the Tumen River, which separates China from North Korea. The book follows the plight of North Koreans who have escaped their country by crossing the river. Talarigo visited the river in 2003 for research, and was surprised at how rural the area is. “It’s the most accessible place for refugees to cross,” he said. “It’s dangerous, but very barren. There are so few people there.” His next book will focus on Lebanon during the civil war in 1982 and the story of a Palestinian woman who becomes a nurse in Beirut. The story will also focus on the Gaza Strip, where Talarigo visited in the early 1990s. Talarigo hopes to complete a solid draft by the end of the year.  Student Profle: Alysha Haran Alysha Haran Most of the students enrolled in the Graduate Creative Writing Program of Wilkes University have the luxury of completing their school work in a comfortable room. But for Alysha Haran, a Navy lieutenant, her writing is often produced while onboard her ship in the middle of the ocean. Haran works as a surface warfare officer onboard the USS Pinckney, home ported out of San Diego. Many nights, she stands watch as fleet officer of the deck; otherwise, her job consists of driving the ship in a battle formation as part of the NIMITZ Strike Group. Haran is responsible for the safety of navigation, engineering, and weapons employment for air and surface/subsurface defense. Haran also serves as the ship’s electrical officer and assistant chief engineer. �She heard about the graduate program through a simple Internet search for online degrees. Originally from San Rafael, Ca., she has experience working in the film business. She worked as a line producer in Los Angeles for eight years where she mostly worked on commercials, but her role expanded into feature work at the end of the career.  During that period, she was scheduled to board one of the flights that crashed into one of the World Trade Centers on September 11, 2001. The attack encouraged her to join the Navy. “It was a last minute change of travel plans that kept me from being a passenger on one of the planes that struck the towers on September 11th,” she said. “It was the impetus for joining the Navy; I raised my right hand thirty days later.” While other students have fewer challenges completing an online graduate degree, Haran often has to deal with sluggish technology. “Most of the time I’m doing school work I’m literally in the middle of the ocean,” she said. “We are dependent on satellites for connectivity, and it’s slow at best.” But Haran stresses her job has been an incredible inspiration in her writing. She plans to use her experience, including deployment to the Arabian Gulf and the Horn of Africa, as material for a book.  “The six to seven month deployment will give me the structure and frame of reference I need to be able to talk about the story of sailors, how we come together to form a crew and what we go through collectively and individually during a combat deployment,” Haran said. She has also been deployed to the Philippines and port visits have included Chennai, India, Kota Kinablu, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong. She will return from deployment shortly before the January residency.  Faculty/Staff Notes Philip Brady’s memoir, By Heart: Reflections of a Rust Belt Bard, has been chosen as Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year for 2008 in the category for essays. Christine Gelineau’s manuscript, Appetite for the Devine, has been selected as the Editor’s Choice in the McGovern Series of the Ashland Poetry Press. The manuscript is slated to be published in April 2010, and will be her second book with Ashland. Kaylie Jones’ memoir, Lies My Mother Never Told Me, has been named one of the hottest summer reads by the website The Daily Beast, www.thedailybeast.com. The book will officially be released on Aug. 25. �Assistant Director Jim Warner has joined the staff of Etruscan Press and will serve as the business manager and associate editor. The press is housed in the offices of the creative writing program and has published two National Book Award finalists – Chromatic by H.L. Hix and Shoah Train by William Heyen.      Student/Alumni Notes M.A. student Chris Bullard’s poetry manuscript, You Must Not Know Too Much, has been selected by Plan B Press, www.planbpress.com, as the winner of their 2009 chapbook contest. The press, based out of Philadelphia, also plans to publish the book. M.F.A. student Richard Fellinger was awarded the annual Beverly Hiscox Scholarship during the June residency. The scholarship was established by Hiscox’s children to honor her service to Wilkes University. The students recipient is a non-traditional student who who demonstrates need and writing talent. Alum Andrea Janov had three poems accepted for publication in the allpunk rock issue of Chiron Review. The issue will be out in December.  M.A. student Carol MacAllister will have an article published in the boating magazine Living Abroad. The article, “Boating Superstitions,” will be published in the September edition.   M.F.A. student Taylor Polites was awarded the annual Norris Church Mailer scholarship at the June residency. The scholarship is given to promising, emerging writers enrolled in the program. Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. 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Archives Creative Writing Community Workshops Weekender Program Launches in Wilkes-Barre January 8 - 10, 2016 AWP – Los Angeles, March 30 – April 2, 2016 Indie Lit Festival in Frostburg James Jones First Novel Fellowship 2015 2017 2018 Call for Writers: At the Inkwell Revise This! - The Wilkes Creative Writing Library Collection November 2019 Wilkes University Tenth Anniversary Celebration Introducing Door is a Jar Faculty Notes Student/Alum Notes Attention:  Alums and Faculty! PAY IT FORWARD — A Unique Revise This! Archives Related Links Calendars & Schedules Campus Map Centers for Excellence 2015 n n �Scholarship Opportunity        If you, as an alum or faculty member, know a writer who would be an excellent fit for our program, you have the power to pass along a $2,500 program incentive. This one time payment is used to offset tuition for their first term of study — an incredible benefit when you consider that most creative writing students pay tuition out of their own pocket.  To PAY IT FORWARD, tell a fellow writer about the program and this award. Send us their contact information and we will track them through the admissions process. Or, simply ask them to reference your name when completing their application. The award will be applied to their first bill. Faculty Publications Graduate Bulletin (.pdf) Graduate Bulletin Online Graduate Student Handbook Library Office of the Registrar Online Learning Professional Pharmacy Application School of Nursing - Graduate Program Student Handbook Schools, Departments, This is an incredible opportunity to bestow a significant gift onto a fellow writer and help jumpstart their career. This initiative was created for alumni/faculty of our program to bestow, so please invite more writers to join our community. Our next residency will be held from January 8 to 16, 2016, when we will also launch our first weekender series (January 8 to 10). Help us promote the program and PAY IT FORWARD.  We congratulate our first PAY IT FORWARD recipient, Ronnie K. Stephens, who discovered our program through MFA alum Jason Carney. If you know someone you think would be a great fit at Wilkes, email or call Dr. Bonnie Culver at bonnie.culver@wilkes.edu or 570.408.4527 to let her know the name of the person applying for the program. Creative Writing Community Workshops Twelve creative writing workshops were implemented last year to introduce Wilkes University to the community in Mesa, Arizona. These workshops were so successful that five additional workshops are planned for 2015. We have also expanded these community workshops to the main Wilkes University campus. Following is a listing of these workshops, offered in Mesa and Wilkes-Barre: Fall Workshop Opportunities – Mesa, Arizona CREATIVE NONFICTION: YOUR STORY 6:15pm – 8:15pm Tuesdays – Sept. 8, 15, 22, 29, Oct. 6, 13 Cost: $50/$30 student ID “How do I turn my life into a story?” Join a community of writers who are dedicated to answering this question among others. Learn the various techniques used to convey emotion and memory through weekly Divisions �workshops grounded in the tradition of memoir. Be encouraged. Write your story. FICTION: THE UNTOLD STORY 6:15 p.m. – 8:15 p.m. Tuesdays – Oct. 20, 27, Nov. 3, 10, 17, 24 Cost: $50/$30 student ID Have you written a short story? Starting a novel? Don’t do it alone. Harness your curiosity by attending this class. Each week we will explore the elements of fiction through craft based discussion and workshop. Fall Workshop Opportunities – Wilkes-Barre Workshops in Fiction, Poetry, Screenwriting, and Creative Nonfiction will be conducted in September and October. These five-week, non-credit workshops are open to the public and are appropriate for adults of any age or educational level. Registration is $45 for each five-week series. The workshops available: FICTION Saturdays, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. Sept. 12, 19, 26, Oct. 3, and 10 Instructor: Francisco Tutella Learn the foundations of fiction writing. Whether you’re a new or established writer, expand your knowledge of the craft. In-class writing exercises and group workshops are designed to help improve work in a casual, supportive, and respectful environment.  POETRY Tuesdays, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Sept. 15, 22, 29, Oct. 6 and 13 Instructor: Dawn Leas Enjoy this introduction to poetry. Explore structure and language both visually and aurally through reading and discussing several American poets. Participants will also write and workshop original work.  SCREENWRITING Wednesdays, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Sept. 16, 23, Oct. 7, 14, and 21 Instructor: Dr. Bonnie Culver (No meeting September 30) Have an idea for a film, but don’t know where to start? This class will give you the basics of writing a screenplay, from formatting to structure to building great characters and using setting. Explore the world and craft as seen and used by the screenwriter. CREATIVE NONFICTION �Thursdays, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Sept. 17, 24, Oct. 1, 8, and 15 Instructor: Sam Chiarelli Explore personal interests to learn the foundations of creative nonfiction writing. In-class writing exercises and group workshops will help new and established writers expand their knowledge of the craft. Workshop members will also be given instruction on how to create a platform for their work and how to cultivate productive habits for a life of writing. Visit wilkes.edu/creativewriting for more information. Weekender Program Launches in Wilkes-Barre January 8 - 10, 2016 Following the success of the Weekender Program in Mesa, Arizona, Wilkes will launch the Weekender Program on the main campus in Wilkes-Barre in January, 2016. In lieu of the traditional eight-day residency, the Weekender Program delivers the same course work during four weekend classes (FridaySunday) over each six-month project term. Course work is delivered online, and the curriculum and requirements are the same as the lowresidency delivery method, including faculty and staff. Inaugural 2016 Term Weekend Class Schedule: January 8-10 February 26-28 April 8-10 May 20-22 This format is an alternative for students whose schedule prevents them from attending the eight-day on campus residencies. For additional information, please contact interim associate director Bill Schneider at 570.408.4534 or bill.schneider@wilkes.edu. AWP – Los Angeles, March 30 – April 2, 2016 The AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) 2016 Conference and Bookfair is taking place in Los Angeles from March 30 through April 2, 2016. The Wilkes Creative Writing program is �allotted 60 registration waivers, which covers only the cost of conference registration. If interested in attending AWP, you will be responsible for travel and hotel costs. If you are planning to attend the conference and would like to reserve a registration waiver, please contact interim associate program director Bill Schneider before Wednesday, September 30, 2015 – bill.schneider@wilkes.edu or 570.408.4534 More information about AWP16, including a list of accepted panels and featured presenters, is available at https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/overview Indie Lit Festival in Frostburg The ninth annual Indie Lit Festival will be held in downtown Frostburg, Maryland with events on October 23 and 24, with a special Thursday, October 22 poetry slam at Dante’s Bar (14 West Main Street in Frostburg). Writers of any experience level are invited to bring self-written poems and verbally duke it out for cash prizes. It is $2 to attend and/or participate; registration begins at 7PM and the slam begins at 7:30PM.  For poetry slam guidelines, visit http://www.frostburg.edu/cla/contestsopportunities/poetry-slam/  With a projected turnout of 200 writers, artists, students, poets, and fellow faculty from neighboring universities, the Indie Lit Festival invites MFA students and faculty to this event as it has been an excellent resource for those who have attended in previous years. The festival garners active participation from the community and brings together writers, editors, and publishers through a variety of panel discussions and roundtable sessions with topics that range from DIY Publishing and Starting a Press, to Fictive Poetry and Poetic Fiction. Many of those who attend the Indie Lit Festival do so to gain more information about the craft of writing and how to hone their creative voice. The festival will include a book fair setup where MFA programs, publishing presses, and editors can set up and use their knowledge and experience to connect with all those in attendance.  The Indie Lit Festival will also be hosting readings of authors presented by editors and their presses. This year will feature readings from Michael �Ratcliffe (Free State Review), Mark Brazaitis (Autumn House Press), Margaret Bashaar (Sundress Publications), and Michael Gerhard Martin (Braddock Avenue Books). Other writers who will be in attendance include novelist Steve Sherrill, author Tim Wendel, Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn, Nebula award winner Andy Duncan, and Guggeinheim Fellowship recipient Barbara Hurd among many others. For a full list of participating presses visit the website http://www.frostburg.edu/cla/indielit-festival/. James Jones First Novel Fellowship 2015 A prize of $10,000 is given annually for a novel-in-progress by a U.S. writer who has not published a novel. Runners-up receive $1,000. A selection from the winning work is published in Provincetown Arts, and the winner also receives complimentary travel and lodging to attend the James Jones Literary Society Conference. This year the conference will be held at Wilkes University on November 5 - 7, 2015. The 2015 James Jones Fellowship contest received a total of 623 submissions. The judges this year were Kaylie Jones, daughter of James Jones and novelist; Barbara Taylor, novelist and author of Sing In The Morning, Cry At Night; and Taylor Polites, novelist and author of The Rebel Wife. Following are the top four novels as decided by the judges: Winner ($10,000): Josie Sigler, Portland, Oregon, is the winner of the James Jones First Novel Fellowship with her manuscript titled The Flying Sampietrini, a novel. Runners-Up ($1,000): Reed Johnson, Takoma Park, Maryland, is the runner-up winner with his manuscript titled Love in the Afterlife. Crystal Hana Kim, Chicago, Illinois, is the runner-up winner with her manuscript titled If You Leave Me.  Honorable Mention:  Jake Andrews, Iowa City, Iowa, for his manuscript, Fiat Vita. �Call for Writers: At the Inkwell The At the Inkwell series is looking for fiction/non-fiction writers. The reading series is presented throughout the year at the KGB Bar in downtown New York. Anyone interested should contact Taylor Ropas (New York City scout for the series): tbrynropas@gmail.com. For more information about the series, please visit www.attheinkwell.com. The Wilkes Creative Writing Library Collection What do you do when you have over 100 published authors connected to your writing program and you want to share that with the world? Start your own library collection. With over 1,500 published works by Creative Writing faculty, alums, and program partners from Wilkes University, we are creating a home for this expanding collection of work, which includes books, produced plays, and screenplays. We have begun to collect copies of all published works by everyone connected to the Wilkes Creative Writing program. The E.S. Farley Library will house the Creative Writing collection.   Wilkes University Tenth Anniversary Celebration  uring residency this past June (June 19 – 26), we celebrated our 10-year anniversary with a slew of events including the 10-year anniversary gala, a ceremony dedicating our newly renovated building in the name of Dr. Harold Cox, alumni readings throughout the week, and special workshops taught by our program alums. We kicked off celebrations with an evening reading on Friday, June 19, at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Centre featuring alumni and faculty who have new books launching this summer. We continued on Saturday, June 20, with the evening gala, marking the 10-year anniversary and bringing program graduates, faculty, and current students together to reminisce �and celebrate. In addition to special presentations about the program’s history (including a compilation of videos produced by graduating classes, a photo exhibition, and a silent auction), we presented program founders Dr. Bonnie Culver and Dr. J. Michael Lennon with framed art pieces. Using photos from cohorts, residencies, and workshops over the past 10 years, MFA student and program graduate assistant Nathan Summerlin created a mosaic piece that depicts the newly named Dr. Harold Cox Hall.  The program’s building dedication took place on Wednesday, June 24, at the newly renovated building at 245 South River Street, where a special ceremony was held to thank Dr. Harold Cox for his generous financial gift to the program as well as his many years of unwavering support. Since the program’s inception, Dr. Cox has taught the research methods course and has assisted numerous students, alum, and faculty in their search for those niggling details that enable our writing to bear the seeds of truth.  During its first decade, the program has launched the careers of dozens of writers —including many from northeastern Pennsylvania. Throughout the week, beginning on Sunday, June 21, and continuing through Thursday, June 25, more than 60 alumni with published books, produced plays, and optioned screenplays, returned to Wilkes to share their work. On Friday, June 26, we held our graduation ceremony and welcomed alum Morowa Yejidé as the keynote speaker. Yejidé’s novel Time of the Locust was a 2012 finalist for the PEN Bellwether Award and longlisted for the PEN Bingham Award. In celebrating her success, Yejidé also reminded what a harrowing climb the writing life can be: “There is no writing life. There is your life and how you fit writing into it.” Whatever works for you is what works for a writing life. In the low-residency program at Wilkes, we encourage our students to find the ways in which to embed writing in their daily life — to include it as one includes bathing, dressing, and eating. Yejidé reminded us, “No one is going to fix your story. That’s up to you. You’re going to have to put in the work,” but also that, “No one remembers the critic.” With a decade behind us, those critics are silenced as we look ahead to the next successful 10 years. Introducing Door is a Jar  Founded in 2015 by Wilkes alumni Ahrend Torrey and Max Bauman, Door is a Jar is a bi-annual online magazine of poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, drama, and �artwork from everyday writers and artists.  It features writing that has cadence, personality, and uses familiar language that takes readers on a journey. Door is a Jar aims to be a bridge from heart to heart, from life to life.  It aims to embrace everyone, redefining what art and literature is, making it understandable and enjoyable for anyone willing to sit down and read. Look for a future post in The Write Life blog for the genesis and ambitions of this new literary magazine, and check out Door is a Jar magazine at http://www.doorisajarmagazine.com Faculty Notes Faculty member Phil Brady recently published the following: Books:To Banquet with the Ethiopians: A Memoir of Life Before the Alphabet (Broadstone Books 2015); Poems and Their Making: A Conversation (ed.) (Etruscan 2015). Periodicals: At Length, “Book VII Redaction” from To Banquet with the Ethiopians: A Memoir of Life Before the Alphabet; The Literary Review, “Book XII The Etymology of Queens” from To Banquet with the Ethiopians: A Memoir of Life Before the Alphabet; Poems and Their Making “Book X Wiretap” from To Banquet with the Ethiopians: A Memoir of Life Before the Alphabet, an essay about making the poem; Best American Poetry Blog, “D. M. Spitzer May I Publish You;” Best American Poetry Blog, “Basketball at 60;” Best American Poetry Blog, “The Sea is Wild Tonight” reprinted from By Heart: Reflections of a Rust Belt Bard (University of Tennessee, 2008). Brady also received the Ohio Governor’s Award in Arts Education; was named Distinguished Professor at Youngstown State University; and Etruscan Press (which Brady co-founded and serves as executive director) was named one of five finalists for AWP’s 2015 Small Press Award. �Faculty member Susan Cartsonis produced The Duff, which was nominated for five Teen Choice Awards: Choice Movie Comedy; Choice Actor – Robbie Amell; Choice Actress – Mae Whitman; Choice Movie Villain – Bella Thorne; Choice Movie Liplock – Mae Whitman & Robbie Amell. Susan attended the awards ceremony with her teenaged niece, Amelia Nicot, on August 16, and is proud that The Duff won for Best Villain. Program Director Bonnie Culver’s 10-minute play “GPS” was included in the winter Piney Fork Short Play Festival held in NYC. Directed by faculty member Gregory Fletcher, “GPS” was named the “Number 1 Play of the Festival” and the cast was invited to reprise the play as the headline feature in the summer festival. Faculty member Gregory Fletcher's short play “Family of Flechner” was selected to be included in the upcoming anthology The Best TenMinute Plays of 2016, published by Smith & Kraus, Inc.  Faculty member J. Michael Lennon’s “Mailer’s Letters: A Colloquy at the Strand Bookstore,” a transcript of a Lennon-Morris Dickstein conversation about Lennon’s edition of Mailer’s letters recently published by Random House, will appear in Vol. 9 of the Mailer Review, out in fall 2015. His review of the new biography of Gore Vidal by Scranton native Jay Parini is slated to appear in TLS this fall.  Faculty member and MFA alum Lori A. May is presenting a talk on literary citizenship at the Montana Book Festival this September. Her book The Write Crowd: Literary Citizenship & the Writing Life has been nominated for an award, with public details to come at a later date. Faculty member and MFA alum Taylor M. Polites' short story "Armory Park" was published in the Akashic Books anthology Providence Noir, �edited by Ann Hood. The story was republished in August in the literary magazine Voice and Eye. Polites has also launched a new venture in partnership with writers Ann Hood and Hester Kaplan dubbed Goat Hill, offering creative writing workshops, talks, seminars, and sociability. Faculty member Juanita Rockwellwas awarded a 2015 Rubys Artist Grant from the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance to write the script, lyrics and music for Little Patch of Ground, a play with songs. Faculty member Neil Shepard's seventh book of poetry, Vermont Exit Ramps II, will be published in September 2015. The collection features 50 poems and 50 photographs composed along the highways and back roads of Vermont. Shepard also delivered a poetry lecture in June called "The Art of Concealing and Revealing in Poetry," which will be televised on Vermont Public Television in the coming months, and he will be reading from his new books this fall at Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH; Phoenix Books in Burlington, VT; and the Spectrum Reading Series in NYC. He will also be teaching in the first Rhodes Scholar's poetry program at the Chautauqua Institute in Chautauqua, NY, this fall. Student/Alum Notes MA graduate Molly Barari ‘15 received a scholarship to attend Sue William Silverman's memoir writing workshop at the Vermont College of Fine Arts Postgraduate Writers' Conference in August. MFA alum Maxwell Bauman ‘14 recently published a free eBook, a supernatural thriller titled Graven Image: Sculpt Me. MA alum Cheryl Bazzoui ‘14, writing under the pen name Ann McCauley, had her essay “Focused Writing Time” published in July/August Working Writer Newsletter and a review of The Search for Anne Perry by Joanne Drayton in the July/September Writer Advice Newsletter. Cheryl is an associate book reviewer for StoryCircle.org, and her most recent book reviews include: War Creek by Susan Marsh on April 2, 2015, The Same Sky by Amanda Eyre Ward on April 18, 2015, Stella Rose by Tammy Flanders Hetrick on May 15, 2015, and My Autistic Awakening by Rachel Lee Harris on July 1, 2015.  MA student Jeremiah Blue ‘15 was privileged to win the Arizona state title for slam poetry at the Copper State Poetry Slam on August 8. The event took place at Firecreek Coffee Company in Flagstaff, Arizona. The annual event is the definitive state championship for slam poetry in Arizona. Jeremiah was the Executive Director for the event in 2013 and 2014, organizing and hosting it in downtown Phoenix. Normally a team event, it was converted into an individual competition for this year. It was a three round, traditionally timed and scored poetry slam event. Jeremiah �advanced to the final round, with a .5 deficit to the first place poet. However, with a higher scoring poem in the final round, he emerged the victor of the event, collecting a cash prize and the title of Copper State Poetry Slam Champion. MA alum Jennifer Bokal’s ‘10 novel, The Gladiator’s Mistress, was released on July 12. It debuted at No. 3 in the Kindle’s Ancient World Historical Romance category and within two days it moved up to the No. 1 position, where it has remained. Her second book in The Champions of Rome series, The Gladiator’s Temptation, will be released in late 2015 or early 2016 by Montlake Romance. Currently, Jen is hard at work on the third book in the series entitled The Gladiator’s Redemption.  MFA alum Tom Borthwick's ‘09 short story "Silencing the Machine" was published by Theme of Absence and a previously published short story entitled "Welcome to the Singularity" has been turned into a screenplay and is in the process of being filmed. The film, Solacium, will wrap production in September 2015. Promotional videos and information can be found on the Solacium Facebook page or at www.solaciumcorp.com. MA student Melody Breyer Grell’s ’15 essay, “Billie Holiday, Cabaret, Hall of Fame,” appears in issue 9/10/2015 of Cabaret Scenes. MA alum Renee Butts '08 published her novel Siren Slave under her pen name, Aurora Styles.  MFA alum Tara Caimi ‘10 read from her memoir Mush: From Sled Dogs to Celiac, the Scenic Detour of My Life and presented on a panel of firsttime authors at “HippoCamp: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers” held August 7 - 9, 2015. MA alum Jim Craig's ‘10 maiden crime fiction novel, Blue Lines Up In Arms , written under his penname James Craig Atchison, will be published by Sunbury Press on September 18. Sunbury Press has also contracted for the sequel to this series, Blue Lines & Old Money (his Wilkes 'capstone' project), which is targeted for March 2016 release. MFA alum Craig Czury ‘08 has been co-hosting an exciting new poetry series, recently touted as "rural intellectualism at its finest." The Old School Poetry Series, at The Springville Schoolhouse Art Studios in Springville, PA, has featured many notable poets including Kerry Shawn Keys, Rick Kearns, and Maria Jacketti. Upcoming poets include: Mischelle Anthony (September 13), Michael Jennings (October 11), and Michael Czarnecki and Sue Spensor (November 14). Take a country drive to be part of the most spirited and happening literary scene in northeast Pennsylvania. Visit www.craigczury.com for details. �MA student Wendy Lynn Decker ‘15 has been invited to the yearly New Jersey Association of Librarians at the Ocean Place Hotel in Long Branch, New Jersey, to showcase her young adult novel, Sweet Tea, in the "Author's Alley." This event takes place on the weekend of November 13 - 15. Visit wendylynndeckerauthor.com for more information. MA student Kayleigh DeMace’s ‘15 short story, “Emma,” has been accepted into an anthology entitled Let's Not, And Say We Did, to be published by Last Syllable Books. MA alum Cindy Dlugolecki ‘11 had three staged readings of short plays over the summer and one scheduled for the fall. Oyster Mill Playhouse in central Pennsylvania featured Paper Trail in a festival of original works over Father's Day weekend. Her Birthday Surprise premiered in the Dorothy Darte Center during the tenth anniversary celebration of the Wilkes Creative Writing program. Birthday Surprise had a second staged reading in August during the Cicada Festival in Mt. Gretna, Pennsylvania, and will be produced as a staged reading a third time at the Hershey Area Playhouse in September. MFA alum Brian Fanelli ‘10 will be part of a poetry panel/reading at the Italian American Studies Association's conference in Washington, D.C. in October. In addition, Brian recently had poems published in Paterson Literary Review, and he has poems forthcoming in the fall issues of Poetry Quarterly and Ishka Bibble. MA alum Donna Ferrara ‘14 has had short stories published in Adanna, r..k.v.r.y, The Diverse Art Project,the MacGuffin, and The Evansville Review this summer. MFA alum Patricia Florio ‘11, founding member of The Jersey Shore Writers, had a great night at the KGB Bar in Manhattan on July 8, 2015, reading from the Shore Writers latest anthology Darkness Falls at the Jersey Shore. They tell tales of noir taking place in the towns of the Jersey Shore from Sandy Hook to Atlantic City. The book can be purchased on Amazon.com. In July 2015, Patricia was notified that her nonfiction story “Missing” will be published in Door Is A Jar magazine. MFA alum Vito Gulla's ‘13 short story “Galacta” was published in The Subtopian: Selected Stories: Volume 2, and his story "High Score" is forthcoming this September in The Big Click. MA student Jennifer Jenkins ‘15 is a new graduate assistant in the marketing communications department at Wilkes University. MA alum Mark Levy ‘08 had a story, “Juggling with Sherlock’s Friend,” published in the Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, Issue 15. He also �had a number of his legal advice columns for videographers published in Videomaker Magazine going back some 20 years. The Mensa Bulletin has scheduled publication of his essay on outwitting automatic toilets and other appliances in men’s rooms in October 2015. Mark is working on a book of 120 humorous pieces to be published by Bon Fed Publishing LLC entitled Trophy Envy, that comprises seven years of essays à la Andy Rooney which were broadcast on the NPR show, Weekend Radio. MA alum Deborah Makuma ’13 is now a full-time English faculty member at Arizona State University in the Writers' Studio Program.  MFA alum Ginger Marcinkowski's ‘11 first mystery short story, “Invisible,” was just named the winner of the 2015 Arizona Writer's Mystery Contest.  MA alum Gale Martin ‘10 had two eBooks purchased and republished by the Encore imprint of Amazon publishing: Grace Unexpected and Who Killed 'Tom Jones’? in 2015. Her novel Who Killed 'Tom Jones'? was also named a finalist in the 2014 Chanticleer Book Reviews Mayhem and Murder category. In August, she presented a session at Hippocamp15 called Arachno-cyber-phobia, in which she documented the challenges, surprises, and rewards of cultivating an online presence.  MFA alum Vicki Mayk's ‘13 essay "Letting Go of My Mother" appeared on The Manifest-Station web site (the manifestation.net) in July 2015. She completed a two-week writing residency at the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, in July, where she worked on her nonfiction book-in-progress and was a featured reader at Poetluck, the colony's monthly reading series for the community. In August, she presented the workshop "Writing Grief: Re-Storying The Lives of Those We've Lost" at HippoCamp, the nonfiction conference started by alum Donna Talarico-Beerman. Vicki presented along with MFA alum Heather Taylor and MA alum Tiffany Hadley. This fall she will once again be teaching a memoir workshop for St. Luke's Hospice in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.  MA alum Todd McClimans's ‘12 second time travel/historical novel Time Underground was published by Overdue Books, an imprint of Northampton House Press. MA alum Lori M. Myers' ‘09 theater for young audiences musical "Cinderella and the Lone Prince" was produced by Gretna Theatre, a professional summer stock theater in Mt. Gretna, PA. It was also performed at Weathervane Theatre, a professional theater in Whitefield, NH. Lori will be moving to New York where she will be teaching writing at Dominican College.  �MA alum Christoph Paul ‘14, under the pen name Mandy DeSandra, published a Bizarro Erotica book Kirk Cameron & The Crocoduck of Chaos Magick which was a break out book in July, being covered by Gawker, AV Club, Wonkette, Jezebel, Vocativ, and VICE. The follow up Ravished by Reagansaurus, inspired by fellow Wilkes student P. Casey Telesk, was published in mid-August. Christoph also published an article "Bizarro Fiction and the Literary Community" in Otter Magazine http://ottermagazine.com/article/bizarro-fiction-and-the-literarycommunity/ and will be publishing a How-To Twitter book with Riot Forge titled Social Media for Anti-Socials: #HowToUseTwitter. He is also publishing his humor fiction book A Confederacy of Hot Dogs for small press Dynatox Ministries. Finally, Christoph has joined the staff of ThatLitSite.com and ThatLitPress and will be editing and publishing Walk Hand In Hand Into Extinction: Stories Inspired By True Detective. MFA alum Adrienne Earle Pender ‘11 has been selected by the Eugene O'Neill Foundation Board to be the third Tao House Fellow in the Travis Bogard Artist in Residence Program at Tao House. Adrienne will spend three weeks at Tao House in September working on her play that will explore the relationship of O'Neill and her relative, actor Charles Sidney Gilpin, who starred in the premiere of O'Neill's play The Emperor Jones in 1920. MFA alum Laurie Elizabeth Powers ’13 was awarded the Louisiana Jury Best Screenplay for her short script "The Importance of Sex Education" at the 2015 Hollyshorts Festival in Los Angeles, CA. The prize comes with a $10,000 production grant to shoot the film in northern Louisiana courtesy of the Louisiana Film Prize (http://lafilmprize.com), effectively green lighting the film. You can follow the film and production news at http://www.importancemovie.com.  MFA alumni Sarah Pugh ‘10 and Cory Brin's ’10 original television series pitch, "The Department," was chosen as one of the ten finalists in the ATX Television Festival Pitch Competition, after submitting a 90second video and a sample pilot script. They pitched their concept live to a panel of industry professionals on June 5 in Austin, Texas. The pitch was very well received, despite not winning the grand prize. The winning pitch had puppets. They can't compete with puppets. MA alum Dania Ramos's ‘10 middle grade novel WHO'S JU, published by Northampton House Press/Overdue Books, won the 2015 International Latino Book Award for Best Young Adult eBook and placed second for Best First Book, Children/Youth.  MA alum Lynne Reeder's ‘10 short story "Marked" won first place in the East Meets West: American Writers Review spring contest, and appears in their Spring 2015 edition. Lynne also won a third place for her poem �"Unbridled" and an honorable mention for her poem "Innocence" in the 14th annual Sophie B. Choice Awards for Poetic Excellence. MFA alum Joseph J. Schwartzburt ‘13 is proud to brag about Seersucker Live's inaugural writing workshop in historic downtown Savannah, Georgia, February 3 – 7, 2016. Featured faculty includes nationally renowned authors Amelia Gray, Arna Bontemps Hemenway, and poet Patricia Lockwood. For more information: www.seersuckerlive.com/workshop.  MFA alum Morowa Yejidé's ‘12 novel Time of the Locust has been released as an audiobook and can be obtained athttp://www.morowayejide.com/time_of_the_locust_audiobook. The Time of the Locust paperback edition will be released by Simon & Schuster/Atria books October 6, 2015. MA alum Marlon James’s ’06 novel A Brief History of Seven Killings has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. 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She is a Producer and President of Storefront Pictures. In 2000, The Hollywood Reporter named her one of the top five grossing of the year for her film What Women Want (starring Mel Gibson) and Where the Heart Is (staring Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd, and Sally Field). Cartsonis was an executive for Twentieth Century Fox for nearly a November 2019 Revise This! Archives n 2010 n n �decade before leaving to build two successful film companies. During her tenure at Fox, she helped develop and supervise Nell, The Truth About Cats and Dogs, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and many others, including a film adaptation of Wilkes faculty member Beverly Donofrio’s Riding in Cars with Boys.   Prior to her career at Fox, Cartsonis was an instructor for New York University's Dramatic Writing Program. She received her M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from N.Y.U. and a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from U.C.L.A. Cartsonis credits her degree as instrumental in her development as a producer, “When you work with writers, it's invaluable to be able to speak to them as someone who has written screenplays and plays and respects the creative process, struggle, and sheer challenge of creating something and seeing it through to completion.” Cartsonis is no stranger to teaching. She has taught at NYU as well as been a speaker and graduate critique professional at UCLA, USC, and SCAD. With such a strong connection to academics, she is a welcome addition to our Creative Writing Community. “Mentoring is part of being a producer—with writers young and old,” says Cartsonis, “Creative writing programs are so important in generating the next batch of talented film makers, novelists, and story tellers.” James Jones Winner Announced! Gina Ventre of Columbus, Ohio, was awarded first place and the $10,000 prize in the 19th Annual James Jones First Novel Fellowship contest for her novel Moon’s Extra Mile. The competition is co-sponsored by the Graduate Creative Writing Program of Wilkes University and the James Jones Literary Society. Runners-up in the competition were David Kim of Costa Mesa, Calif., for his manuscript Serendipity; and Laura Walter of Lakewood, Ohio, for her manuscript Finding Opal. They were each awarded $750. Colum McCann Wins National Book Award �Colum McCann, winner National Book Award Colum McCann, a member of the advisory board for the Wilkes University Graduate Creative Writing Program, has won the National Book Award for his novel Let the Great World Spin. The award was presented on Nov. 18 in New York City. The award – considered one of literature’s most prestigious – is presented in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature. As a member of the Wilkes creative writing program’s advisory board, McCann has provided input on course content and curriculum, performed readings from his work at its residencies, and been a thesis reader for degree candidates in the program. Let The Great World Spin takes place in August 1974, when a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the Twin Towers, a quarter mile above the ground. It chronicles the lives of a group of New Yorkers, weaving their separate stories against the backdrop of the tightrope walker’s feat. Some of McCann’s other novels include Zoli, Dancer, and This Side of Brightness. His fiction has been published in 30 languages and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Paris Review, Bomb and other places. He has written for numerous publications including The Irish Times, Die Zeit, La Republicca, Paris Match, The New York Times, the Guardian and the Independent. In 2003 he was named Esquire magazine's "Writer of the Year." Other awards and honors include a Pushcart Prize, the Rooney Prize, the Hennessy Award for Irish Literature, the Irish Independent Hughes and Hughes/Sunday Independent Novel of the Year 2003, and the 2002 Ireland Fund of Monaco Princess Grace Memorial Literary Award. His short film, “Everything in this Country Must,” directed by Gary McKendry, was nominated for a 2005 Academy Award. McCann lives in New York City, where he teaches creative writing at Hunter College. �The mission of the National Book Foundation and the National Book Awards is to celebrate the best of American literature, expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of good writing in America. Marlon James Named Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award Marlon James, Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction Marlon James’ novel The Book of Night Women was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction by the National Book Critics Circle. The finalists were announced in January, and the winners were announced on March 11.  Other finalists included memoir writer Mary Karr, former U.S. poet laureate Louise Glück, and former National Book Award winner William T. Vollmann. The other fiction nominees included Hilary Mantel, Jayne Anne Phillips, and Michelle Huneven. Mantel won the fiction category for her novel Wolf Hall. The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a nonprofit organization with around 600 members, "book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns." James worked on The Book of Night Women while he was enrolled in the creative writing program. He also teaches at Macalester College in Minnesota. Cecilia Galante Joins Creative Writing Faculty �Cecilia Galante, newest member of Creative Writing Faculty Young adult novelist Cecilia Galante has joined the faculty of the Graduate Creative Writing Program. She is the author of five young adult novels. Her first, The Patron Saint of Butterflies, was selected as a Young Adult Book of the Year by the Northeast Independent Booksellers Association, a Top Ten Pick for 2008 by Amazon, and a Recommended Read for Teens on Oprah's website. Another one of her books, Hershey Herself, will be translated into Polish in 2010. Her other novels include Willowood, and The Sweetness of Salt, which will be published in 2011. She has BA from King’s College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. Her first interactions with the faculty and students came in January when she attended the residency. “It was thrilling. I had no idea that I was going to be among such a crowd of intellectuals and have peers that are so successful,” she said. Galante is no stranger to teaching. She spent years teaching high school English in the Wilkes-Barre area, though she is currently on sabbatical. But when it comes to teaching in the Graduate Creative Writing Program, she plans to use what she learned as a graduate student at Goddard. “I’m trying to borrow more from my experience as a student. My teachers at Goddard were incredibly supportive and astute,” she said.  “I’ve been able to draw from that experience and insert criticism in a way that doesn’t kill the spirit.” Besides teaching, Galante is also hard at work on her first adult novel, and the process has not always been easy. “It’s been incredibly daunting. For young adult, you’re allowed to write more simply and straightforward,” she said. “So, I was getting caught up in sounding like an adult and  sounding smart enough.” Galante added that the process has been easier lately, and she’s confident the book will stand on its own. She has to submit a manuscript by the end of April. Though this will be Galante’s first adult novel, she admitted that she was not initially attracted to the young adult genre. “I wasn’t even familiar there was a YA genre when I wrote my first book, The Patron Saint of Butterflies. My agent said we were going to market it as young adult, and I was devastated. I didn’t think it was young adult,” she said. “I sat back and waited, and she was right. It became a successful young adult book and a crossover book. It appeals to adults �and young adults at the same time.” Bonnie Culver Helps Area High School Students Take Writen Work from "Page to Stage" Bonnie Culver Students in four northeast Pennsylvania school districts have a chance to become playwrights in a special program being piloted by Bonnie Culver, director of the Graduate Creative Writing Program. Culver worked with two graduate students, Sarah Pugh and Cory Brin, on a master of fine arts project developing a pilot program, “Page to Stage.” Culver is working as guest artist in four high schools – Hanover Area, Hazleton, Tunkhannock and Wyoming Valley West  – to teach basic elements of playwriting to students. Culver was in the schools Tuesdays and Wednesdays from Feb. 2 to March 25. Each student presented a 10-minute play. One or two plays from each school will be chosen to be presented at the Fine Arts Fiesta in May. Wilkes University’s long-term goal is to replicate this with fiction, poetry, film, and nonfiction with creative writing students and faculty serving as guest artists in area schools with a final arts festival on campus. Faculty/Staff Notes *Lenore Hart’s new novel The Raven’s Bride (named after the poem by Edgar Allen Poe) will be published in both hardcover and paperback by St. Martin’s Press in February 2011. *David Poyer’s latest novel Ghosting, a story of a dysfunctional family threatened on a weeklong sailing excursion, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in November 2010.   *Bonnie Culver, Creative Writing Program Director; Advisory Board member Column McCann; plus faculty members Mike Lennon, Lenore Hart, and Kaylie Jones all served as workshop instructors at the August �session of the Norman Mailer Writer’s Colony in Provincetown, MA.   Bonnie Culver, Creative Writing Program Director, and Jean Klein, playwrighting faculty member, each had a ten-minute play included in Shorts for All Seasons: America Revisited: An Evening of Short Plays at the VENUE, Norfolk, VA November 12-20. Christine Gelineau’s essay “Cops” was published in the winter issue of The Florida Review as a runner up in their Editors’ Award in Nonfiction. Rashidah Ismaili Abu-Bakr’s poetry was published in Bending the Bow, a collection of love poems from Africa, published by Southern Illinois Press. Sara Pritchard's story "Sip the Wine" was published in Vol. 76, No. 1 of New Letters (Dec. 2009). Her story "Two Studies in Entropy" won a Pushcart Prize and is included in the 2010 PUSHCART PRIZE XXXIV BEST OF THE SMALL PRESSES anthology, and her story "Help Wanted: Female" is forthcoming in Vol. 6 (2010) of The Tusculum Review. Sara will be reading at the River Festival of Books in Huntington, West Virginia, on Friday, April 16, 2010. Student/Alumni Notes Morowa Yejide’s short story “Tokoyo Chocolate” appears in the Japanbased collection Yomimono, published in September, 2010. Her short story “To Do List” was nominated for the Dzanc Best Books of the Web 2011 by Jersey Devil Press. Gale Martin’s opera blog (www.operatoonity.wordpress.com) has received critical attention, and she has been named an accredited Bachtrack reviewer for the Metropolitan Opera.   Starr Troup attended a week-long workshop at the Norman Mailer Writer’s Colony in Provincetown, MA. She was awarded a summer scholarship and spent the week at the center working with and learning from other professional writers. M.A. student Amy Archer had part of her memoir entitled “Bad Connection” published in the December issue of the Journal of Truth and Consequences. M.A. student Cindy Dlugolecki’s play, “Violet Oakley Unveiled,” was showcased at Villanova University on Thursday, March 18. The onewoman show helped celebrate Women’s History Month. Violet Oakley was the first woman in art history to paint murals in a public building, and her home and studio were only a few miles from Villanova’s campus, �according to Dlugolecki. Dlugolecki, the actress, director, and tech team were also the guest of five different departments at Villanova, including Women and Gender Studies, History, and Art. M.F.A. student Brian Fanelli’s poem “Freshman Year” was published in the February issue of My Favorite Bullet. http://www.interiornoisepress.com/0010_FANELLI_FreshmanYear.html, and his poems “In a Club’s Cracked Mirror” and “Why I Said No” were published in the March issue of Word Riot http://www.wordriot.org/archives/976. M.A. student Kimberly Loomis-Bennet’s poem, “It Is Sweet and Decorous To Be Poor in One’s Country,” was published in the Winter 2010 issue of The November 3rd Club. http://www.november3rdclub.com/2010/02-2010/poetry/loomisbennett.html Alum Pete Kaszyk’s short story, “You’re Not My Father,” was accepted for publication by Kerlak Publishing for inclusion in its WTF Anthologies edition. Publication date is pending. Alumnus Brian Fanelli’s chapbook of punk rock poetry, entitled Front Man is now available through Big Table Publishing. It was released in October, 2010. Alumna Dawn Leas will see the release of her first chapbook “I Know When to Keep Quiet” by Finishing Line Press in November. Leas received her MFA in January 2009, and this chapbook is 26 pages of her original thesis. Leas will be the featured reader at Anthology New and Used Books in Scranton on November 26th at 7 p.m.   Alums Maureen Hooker, Bill Lowenburg, and Matthew Hinton will all appear in the fourth volume of the acclaimed Mailer Review, which was released in November.   Alumni Jonathan Rocks, Bill Lowenburg, and Matthew Hinton each attended week-long workshop at the Norman Mailer Writer’s Colony in Provincetown, MA. They were awarded summer scholarships and spent their time at the center working with and learning from other professional writers.   �Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. 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The New York Times, Paris Review, and many more media outlets are praising Kennedy’s latest publication, with USA Today calling this an “ambitious, mature work.” In Chango Beads and Two-Tone Shoes we see Hemmingway make chatter with Castro, and a witty reporter, Quinn, settle into Cuba because it’s “closer than Paris.” “The Cuban element in my book had its origin in personal experience,” Revise This! Archives n 2011 n n �Kennedy said in a recent interview. “I covered the Cuban revolution in Miami and later in San Juan, PR, in the 1950s as a newsman, first on the Miami Herald, then on the San Juan Star, and as a correspondent for Time-Life. The experience nagged me for years, and eventually I took up the challenge.” While the personal angle may have prompted the book’s creation, it did not make the journey any easier. “I witnessed much suffering and heroic behavior among people in the movement; also much repression and virulent racism, and that became central to the new novel. The book in progress turned into a story of two revolutions; and what then loomed was the reimagining of both, and fitting them into my story about a journalist and a revolutionary debutante. And nine years later I finished it.” Wilkes writing students were honored with a featured reading at a recent residency, wherein Kennedy shared a few scenes from Chango Beads and Two-Tone Shoes. For students wishing to merge nonfiction elements with fiction, Kennedy has this advice. “The novel usually wants to be as true as possible to historical reality, but not at the expense of the story. The writer is getting at the truth of what he/she knows and wants to put on the page; but the reimagining of history, or even our own past, is necessary if this work aspires to be literature,” Kennedy said, “for such work is not the transcription of history but is experience that has passed through the center of our being, and been transformed into a story, play, novel that never was—a work created from the argument that the creative element in the writer’s brain is having with imagination, memory, and the implacable drive to be authentic.” This can prove to be a challenge for writers, young and experienced. “History is always malleable to the novelist. Being scrupulously, morally faithful to it can involve distorting or even eliminating what was actual. The writer’s quest is to be true to what is more important: the literary synthesis of all that internal torsion—the truly new story.” With all the media and publicity, Kennedy is settling in to getting back to what matters most. “I just finished my book tour about two weeks ago and am still not quite settled into the next phase of my life, which is to get back to writing,” Kennedy said in a recent interview. “Hemingway said that after you finish a novel you have to let the well fill up again; and that’s what I’m doing. But I have resumed something I started years ago and never finished—a play. I will finish it this time, and I will be satisfied, I think. I’m never satisfied with anything, but at least this time I will not consider what I write to be a provisional draft. This will be it, and I’ll have a staged reading. Then, of course, I’ll start the rewriting.” Alum Lori Myers' Essay Nominated for a Pushcart Prize When Hippocampus Magazine published Lori Myer’s essay, “Word,” in September 2011, the author and �Wilkes alum would have never guessed so much attention would come her way. “I am beyond thrilled to receive a Pushcart nomination and be part of this select group of writers,” Myers said recently. From the year’s submissions, Hippocampus selected six pieces of non-fiction, including Myers’ essay exploring the power of word play. “Words can affect us, cut like a knife, or perhaps even change our lives, our philosophies, our paths,” Myers says in her essay. An award-winning writer of creative nonfiction, fiction, essays, and plays, Myers has seen her work published in more than 40 national and regional publications. A graduate of the Creative Writing masters program at Wilkes University, she is now part of the writing faculty at York College of Pennsylvania. Even with her continued stream of success, this author is modest and appreciative of the attention she is earning for her writing— and for the genre as a whole. “Honestly, I have no idea when the winners will be announced. Just being nominated has meant so much! Besides, these types of awards place the literary arts center stage!” In her reflection on words and their weighty meaning, Myers has this to say in her essay: “Like a rock thrown into the literary pool, words cause the waters to ripple; they have power and weight, which is why writers ache and moan and starve and revise, revise, revise to make certain they use just the right words in a scene, in dialogue, in verse.” To read the full essay, visit Hippocampus Magazine at http://www.hippocampusmagazine.com. More information about the Pushcart Prize may be found online at http://www.pushcartprize.com/index.htm. Faculty/Staff Notes Robert P. Arthur has again been nominated for Poet Laureate of Virginia. He was a runner up for the post in both 2008 and 2010. Taschen Press has just published a new, revised edition of Norman Mailer’s 1973 biography, conceived by Advisory Board member Larry Schiller, and edited by J. Michael Lennon, who also contributed a biographical note on Mailer. The new edition contains heretofore unseen photographs by the great photographer, Bert Stern, from the last sitting with Monroe just before she died in 1962. The oversize, clamshell-boxed, limited edition of 125 copies sells for $1,000. A trade edition is six languages for a much lower price will appear in a few months. Go to �Taschen.com for details. Lennon reports that he is six months from completing a draft of the authorized biography of Mailer, to be published by Simon & Schuster next year (or maybe early 2013). Nancy McKinley’s short story “Navidad” appears in Issue 53 of The Cortland Review. Thom Ward has given a number of readings around the country, and has scheduled more for 2012, for his new poetry book, Etcetera’s Mistress, published by Accents Publishing. A review written by Brian Fanelli is available at pankmagazine.com. Student/Alumni Notes M.F.A. alum Chris Bullard’s second poetry chapbook, O Brilliant Kids, was recently released by Big Table Publishing. His poem “Miss Ross” was selected for inclusion in the poetry anthology, Best of the Barefoot Muse. His poems currently appear in 32 Poems, Plainsongs, Pleiades and Think Journal, and have been selected for future publication by River Styx, New York Quarterly, Unsplendid, fourteen magazine and Blue Unicorn. M.A. student Kait Burrier’s poem, “The Angler’s Gaze,” was accepted into Dionne’s Story: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose for the Awareness of Relationship Violence, Volume 2. Proceeds from anthology sales benefit Dionne’s Project for Safe Relationships. M.A. student Christopher Campion had two short stories, “Debt” and “Opened,” accepted by www.fiction365.com for 2012 publication. M.F.A. alum Craig Czury has been named Laureate and Honorary Member of the largest Albanian celebration of poetry in the world, the XV “Days of Naim” International Poetry Festival in Tetovë, Macedonia. Czury is the first poet from the United States to be awarded this laureateship. M.A. alum Alessandra Djordjevic has two poems, “Love’s Androgynous” and “Poetic Countenance” published on the website wordathering.com. He also has a short story, “Black Agate,” published in an anthology of short stories, The Smartest Kid in the Bronx. M.F.A. alum Brian Fanelli’s poem “After Work” has been accepted for publication in the winter issue of Harpur Palate, and his poem “How I Remember Her” is forthcoming in the next issue of Evening Street Review. M.F.A. alum Patricia Florio’s memoir, My Two Mothers, is now �available. She is working on a follow-up, with the working title Sundays with My Father. Her short story, “The Blonde I Loved to Hate,” has also been recently published. M.A. student Lori A. May was a guest presenter at the fall College Student Literary Magazine Conference in Danville IL. She also had a recent poetry reading at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, during the Michigan College English Association conference. M.F.A student Vicki Mayk’s essay “Verismo” was awarded third prize in Hippocampus Magazine’s “Remember in November” contest. M.A. alum Lori Myers’ short story “Maneuvers” was published in the anthology Off Season. Her children’s musical GLEE-ful Rapunzel was staged at Gretna Theatre, Mt. Gretna, PA, and her short play Sight Unseen was staged at Gamut Theatre, Harrisburg, PA as part of Sonnet Inspirations. She also had sketch-plays Miss Information and No Way staged at The Academy Theater, Meadville, PA. M.F.A. alum Taylor Polite’s The Rebel Wife has been named one of the best southern reads for 2012 by The Atlanta Journal – Constitution. M.F.A. alum William D. Prystauk’s dramatic horror Ravencraft was a Top-20 Finalist at Shriekfest in Hollywood and a review of his screenplay Risen appeared on Horrorphilia.com. He has also recently published reviews in Hippocampus Magazine and PANK Magazine, and presented the paper, “The Kids Aren’t All Right: Horror Movies Remind Us that Protecting Our Children in the Home is a Delusion” at the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association’s Annual Conference this past November in Philadelphia. M.A. student Joseph Schwartzburt’s literary group Seersucker Live ran a successful event that brought out more than 110 literary lovers to Kevin Barry’s Bar in Savannah, GA. Featured writers were novelist Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket), poet Patricia Lockwood, novelist Jonathan Raab, and poet/memoirist Chad Faries. M.F.A. student Sandee Umbach’s full-length poetry collection, The Pattern Maker’s Daughter, is being released in February of 2012 by Bottom Dog Press Program Note The Write Life blog welcomes guest posts from faculty, students, and alumni. Email lori.may1@wilkes.edu for details. Weekly interviews and literary news are shared online at http://wilkeswritelife.wordpress.com. �    Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. 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Archives Related Links Calendars & Schedules Campus Map Centers for Excellence Faculty Publications Features Graduate Bulletin (.pdf) Graduate Bulletin Online Graduate Student Handbook Etruscan’s Tim Seibles a National Library Book Award Finalist Office of the Registrar It’s been another busy year for Etruscan Online Learning Press! The press was honored with the Professional Pharmacy National Book Award Finalist nod for Fast Application Animal, by author Tim Seibles. The fine School of Nursing - Graduate folks at Etruscan share their news and Program Student Handbook excitement in the following Q&A. Schools, Departments, Divisions n n �Q. Fast Animal already had so much positive response. What has the National Book Award Finalist nod done for the book? A. This is the strongest collection yet from an important American poet at the height of his powers. Being chosen as one of five finalists for this prestigious award focuses attention on the book, on the press, and on the poet’s body of work so far. Q. What about for Etruscan? Has anything changed or is it just another day in publishing? A. This is a huge thrill and an important milestone for us. Etruscan seeks not only to encourage a dialogue among genres, but also to nurture a dialogue among writers at different stages of their careers. We have published work by some of America’s best known poets and writers, and we have also introduced first books by the next generation of writers. Having another National Book Award finalist is a boost for all our writers, and an encouragement of the dialogue which they conduct. Q. How has the designation influenced any post-publication activity? A. Because of the award, we’re in the process of doing a large reprint of Fast Animal. Seibles is already a much sought-after performer and advocate for poetry; his schedule will only get busier as he promotes his latest book. Q. Now, this isn’t the first time Etruscan has received such an honor, is it? A. This is our third National Book Award Finalist, following William Heyen’s Shoah Train in 2004 and H.L.Hix’s Chromatic in 2006. To put this in context, only one other independent press in the country has placed three NBA finalists in the last eight years; and no other press has ever had three in their first eleven years of existence. Q. Any other comments? A. We’re delighted to share this celebration with Wilkes M.F.A. Program, whose continued support helps Etruscan thrive. The partnership with Wilkes has blossomed in many ways: this year we are publishing two books by Wilkes faculty, Kevin Oderman’s novel White Vespa and Sarah Pritchard’s short story collection, Help Wanted: Female. Two Etruscan authors, H.L. Hix and William Heyen, serve on the Wilkes Advisory Board; our co-founding Editors, Phil Brady and Bob Mooney, serve on the faculty. Our Managing Editor, Starr Troup, is a Wilkes M.F.A. alumna. Over twenty Wilkes graduates have interned for Etruscan, gaining professional experience and credential in all aspects of publishing, from editing to educational outreach to design to production to fund-raising; many more students have learned about publishing with our Literary Publishing class. With Akashic Books’ Johnny Temple, we are launching a new branch of the M.A. in Literary Publishing. Entering our seventh year, The Wilkes-Etruscan partnership is stronger than ever. �  Morowa Yejidé Signs Book Contract “When you work so hard at something and constantly dream and strategize about it and then you finally do get a YES, it’s hard to believe it,” Morowa Yejidé said. “That was my initial reaction to hearing that my novel, Time of the Locust, was going to be published by Atria/Simon & Schuster. Disbelief.” The Wilkes alum said the premise of her novel had been floating around her mind for several years before she even put pen to paper. It’s the story of an autistic boy living in the universe of his mind and his supernatural relationship with his incarcerated father. Prior to focusing on her thesis, Morowa had a few sample chapters that were published as short stories. With that early success and encouragement, she took the project further. “I decided to give a complete manuscript a serious effort through the Wilkes M.F.A. The faculty really seemed to be in the trenches as working writers—which was what attracted me to the program,” she said. “I listened to Robert Mooney read one of his powerful, visually-driven narratives and knew right away I wanted to work with him as my Faculty Mentor.” Morowa was determined to strengthen the story, but she was also eager to have an audience. “I continued revisions along the way, working with Mooney, sending the manuscript out, sort of building the plane while I was flying it. After many rejections from various agents and publishing houses large and small, I decided to try some national competitions.” That’s when she began making headway. “Time of the Locust placed as a finalist in the 2012 PEN/Bellwether Prize and the Dana Awards.” The Wilkes alum had already seen success in other venues. Her short stories have appeared in the Istanbul Literary Review, Ascent Aspirations Magazine, Underground Voices, the Adirondack Review, and others. One of her stories had been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, too, but she still wanted the book manuscript to strike a chord with publishers. Once she had the selling point as a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize and the Dana Awards, Morowa took another chance. “I sent out more queries. The rest is, as they say, history. Time of the Locust is forthcoming Spring 2014.” More about Morowa Yejidé can be found on her website at http://morowayejide.com. �  New Michael Mailer Production Stars Alec Baldwin Faculty member Michael Mailer has produced more than twenty features and leads Michael Mailer Films. He has been busy with a new project, starring Alec Baldwin and James Toback, and we were pleased to find out more about this unique production. Q. Can you tell us about Seduced and Abandoned? A. Seduced and Abandoned is a non-fiction film, part mediation on film and the filmmaking process consisting of interviews of film legends such as Polanski, Bertolucci, Scorcese, Copola, and part adventure tale following the ups and downs of Alec Baldwin and James Toback as they attempt to set up a remake of Last Tango in Paris (but this one is set in Iraq called Last Tango in Tikrit) at the Cannes Film Festival. Q. What was the reaction to the process while filming at Cannes? A. Shooting a film about the making of a film at a filmmakers festival was highly stimulating both for all of those involved but for the denizens of Cannes as well. We had great support from the head of the festival himself, Thierry Fermaux. Q. Would you say the project was a success—either in terms of the project itself or in raising money for the ‘undisclosed future film’? A. So far yes. The film we shot turned out well. It’s compelling and will be of interest to anyone interested in film and the filmmaking process. Q. When and where can audiences see the film? A. We’re in post production. The movie will be finished at the end of January, then hopefully viewable in theaters initially, followed by VOD, and other ancillaries.   Persistence Pays Off for Alum Tara Caimi M.F.A alum Tara Caimi has a craft essay in the December 2012 issue of The Writer’s Chronicle (AWP). It took time and patience to see “Privileged Perspective in Memoir: Building the Bridge of Trust by Trusting the Reader” in print, but Tara was determined and persistent in her submission process. �“I think it was fourteen months after I submitted the article before I heard from The Writer’s Chronicle. By that time I assumed the article had been rejected and that the letter had somehow gotten lost in the mail,” Tara said. That’s when she received an email from the editor requesting a few verbiage adjustments. Tara sent in the edited essay and then waited another eight months to hear back from the magazine. This time, they accepted her piece but not for immediate publication. “It didn’t seem real, but the wait was not yet over. Another full year passed before the editors found a place for it in the journal. It took three years total from submission to publication. I can say now with confidence, it was well worth the wait.” On the topic of patience, Tara says “being impatient doesn’t change most outcomes.” She considers the revision process and waiting game part of the job, acknowledging that much of the editorial side of things is out of a writer’s control. “I think we, as writers, do best to focus on the parts we can control—the writing, the submitting, the querying—and we should try not to worry about those parts of the process that depend on others. Of course, this is easier said than done.” The Wilkes alum also believes perseverance is a necessity for writers. “We can’t know with any degree of certainty how the work will be received by others, and we get far more rejections than acceptances. Without perseverance, we would not be writers.” Tara’s professional attitude has netted positive results. The alum has also had success with placing excerpts from her memoir in literary journals. Tara credits her Wilkes education and experience for developing her skills as a professional writer. “Being among this community of supremely talented writers with the students, alum, and faculty provides both support and inspiration and helps me to continue moving forward. Writing can be a lonely endeavor, and I’m encouraged by reading about the work that others are doing. I continue to learn from this community through reading the newsletter and following discussions on various social media platforms on a regular basis. It is part of my ‘writerly’ life and I’m happy to be able to give back by sharing my experiences as well.” �Announcements The Wilkes Creative Writing Program is thrilled to again receive a grant from the Maslow Foundation. The grant is $17,000, which helps underwrite the costs of our visiting writers and public evening readings, aptly titled, the Maslow Evening Reading Series. This is the seventh year in a row the Maslow Foundation has supported our program and we are grateful and honored for their continued support and enthusiasm for what we’re doing here at Wilkes. The Wilkes program will again offer a one-week in-depth literary publishing seminar. The Art and Science of Literary Publishing will take place from 9 am to 5 pm, Monday, Jan. 7 through Friday, Jan 13, 2013 on the Wilkes University campus. The course includes information about the current publishing environment from large to small presses, including corporate, independent, non-profit, university, multi-media and selfpublishing models. There will be discussions about editorial policies, book design, distribution, business models, marketing, sales of manuscripts, legal issues, author events, and much more. Instructors are Phil Brady (executive director of Etruscan Press) and Johnny Temple (publisher and editor of Akashic Books). The course may be taken for four graduate credits in conjunction with Wilkes’ creative writing degree programs. Those not taking the course for graduate credit will receive a certificate of completion following receipt of their final portfolio of written work. For more information, or to register, call the Wilkes University graduate creative writing program at (570) 408-4547 or email cwriting@wilkes.edu. If you plan on attending the annual AWP Conference and Bookfair, taking place in Boston MA, March 6-9, 2013, you’ll find ample Wilkes representation. Faculty Gregory Fletcher and Jean Klein, and alum Laurie Powers are on the panel “The Ten-Minute Play: the Essential Ingredients,” Nancy McKinley is presenting on the panel “International Women’s Day Reading from Becoming: What Makes a Woman,” and Christine Gelineau will present on the panel “Second Sex, Second Shelf? Women, Writing, and the Literary Marketplace.” Jim Warner, alum and former assistant program director, will once again host the All-Collegiate Poetry Slam and Open Mic every night of the conference. Bonnie Culver, program director, is on the AWP national Board of Trustees and was a member of the Boston Conference committee. She noted, “There are more presentations this year than any other year in AWP history. It promises to be another fantastic conference.” For more information about AWP and the conference schedule, visit www.awpwriter.org. Don’t forget to stop by Wilkes/ Etruscan Press booth in the Bookfair! Faculty/Staff Notes �Bonnie Culver’s 10-minute play GPS was recently produced at The Venue, Norfolk VA. Cecilia Galante’s sixth book, about a girl who unknowingly gets involved with an exorcism, was recently acquired by Random House. It is scheduled to be released in fall 2013. Christine Gelineau’s poem, “List for a Blue Day,” was published in Women’s Voices for Change. Dawn Leas has two poems, “Hibernia” and “East West,” included in the anthology Forever Families (Mandinam Press). Nick Mamatas has several short pieces in various recently released anthologies: the novelette “Arbeitskraft” appears in Steampunk: Revolutions (Tachyon Publications); the short story “Avant-n00b” can be found in Bloody Fabulous (Prime Books), which collects short fantasies about fashion; the suspense story “Willow Tests Well” was published in Psychos: Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane (Black Dog & Leventhal); and “The Big Blue Peacock” appears in Dark Faith: Invocations (Apex Publications), which collects horror stories on religious themes. Nancy McKinley’s short story, “Sweet the Sound,” has been accepted by Blue Lake Review for publication in February 2013. Kevin Oderman has a new novel, White Vespa, available from Etruscan Press. David Poyer has increased his backlist. His novel Stepfather Bank is now available on Kindle, Nook, and Kobo readers. Neil Shepard has seen a number of book reviews for his fourth collection of poetry, Travel/Untravel. These appear in the American Book Review, Colorado Review, Rain Taxi Review, Rattle, Provincetown Arts, The Journal (Ohio State U), and PANK. Shepard’s radio interview with the SUNY-Binghamton radio program, Eggshell Parade, was recorded in October. He has new poems in two online literary magazines Mead and Per Contra, as well as in an upcoming anthology of TV poems. His poetry readings in the coming months include gigs at the University of Vermont, The Vermont Studio Center, The Writers Place (Kansas City MO), The Cosmopolitan Club (NYC), and Barnes & Noble (Burlington VT). He will be teaching poetry workshops at The Writers Place in Kansas City MO and at the Ossabaw Writers’ Retreat in Savannah GA. �Richard Uhlig’s novel, Mystery at Snake River Bridge, was recently acquired by Wild Child Publishing and is set for a 2014 release. Student/Alumni Notes M.A. student Kait Burrier’s short one act play, Patient/Fracture, was recently staged during the 2nd annual JMPP invitational, Dyonisia ‘12. She also wrote and directed three site-specific monologues for Scranton’s 2nd annual Bonfire at the Iron Furnaces. She continues to review arts and entertainment for NEPA’s Weekender. Kait’s poetry will appear in forthcoming issues of Ruminate Magazine, Word Fountain, and NAP lit mag’s e-chapbook, #GOODLitSwerveAutumn. M.F.A. alum Tara Caimi has a craft essay, “Privileged Perspective in Memoir: Building the Bridge of Trust by Trusting the Reader,” in the December issue of AWP’s The Writer’s Chronicle. Her short story “Chicken Divan,” which first appeared in Fire & Knives, is forthcoming in Oh Comely magazine. M.A. student Christopher J. Campion’s short story “That Familiar and Dissonant Tune” has been accepted for publication by Fiction365.com. M.F.A. alum Brian Fanelli has three poems published in Foliate Oak. His poem, “After Working Hours,” has been nominated for a 2012 Pushcart Prize. The poem first appeared in the fall 2012 issue of Boston Literary Magazine. M.F.A. alum Patricia Florio’s story “Golden Boy” will appear in the Spring 2013 edition of Newton Literary. “Golden Boy” is based on a family member who was a professional dancer in the 1940s, and the rest of the story bears a bit of truth and a lot of fiction. M.F.A. alum Wendy Garfinkle’s debut novel, Serpent on a Cross, has been e-published by Northampton House Press, under the pseudonym Darya Asch. It’s available on Nook, Kindle and Kobo. M.F.A. alum John Koloski has e-published his first novel, Empyres: Bloodblind. It is the first book in the Empyres trilogy, with the next two to follow in 2013 and 2014. The book is available for Kindle, Nook, and Kobo readers. M.F.A. alum Carol MacAllister’s sci-fi e-book, Mayan Calendar Reveal, is available on Kindle and scheduled for all popular reading devices. Her short story “Blood Pine” is part of the prestigious trade collection The Call of Lovecraft, from Evil Jester Press. “Under Nighttime Rainbows,” an erotic horror story, is part of the upcoming UK collection Peep Show �Vol.2.edited by Paul Fry. Several of her poems and a foreword are slated for the collection of inspirational work Light Within, from Ireland. A shared poem with Adrian Spendlow, official town bard of York England, will appear with other work in Word Fountain. M.A. student Lori A. May has new critical essays and reviews in New Orleans Review, The Iowa Review, and Los Angeles Review. Her poem “Drinks Among Friends” was published in a special anthology by Pirene’s Fountain. Her personal essay “Out of a Suitcase and Into the Vortex” was published by Passages North. Another essay, “The Stamp,” was published by Connotation Press. M.F.A. alum William Prystauk presented a critical paper, “Disturbing Cinema: Why We Watch,” at the EAPSU Fall Conference. He is currently filming his horror short, Too Many Predators. Also, Fantastic Horror is publishing his short story “Food” in the upcoming “Blood” issue. M.A. alum Joseph Schwartzburt is working with Seersucker Live, a Savannah Literary group. They will be putting on a show in January featuring writers from The Georgia Review: Liza Wieland, Alice Friman, and editor Stephen Corey. M.F.A. alum Donna Talarico was one of seventeen higher ed professionals contracted to write a chapter for the forthcoming book from mStoner, Social Works: How #HigherEd Uses #SocialMedia to Raise Money, Build Awareness, Recruit Students and Get Results. Her chapter is a case study of a shared social media campaign/contest between MIT and Cornell. She also presented “No Such Thing as TMI: How to Create a Culture of Content Sharing” at the 2012 Higher Education Web Professionals annual conference held in October in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Talarico won Best of Track for the Marketing, Content and Social Strategy track, which allowed her to give her presentation two more times during special “Red Stapler Sessions” on the final day of the conference. Talarico also gave this presentation at the eduWeb conference in July and was asked to give an abbreviated version of it in October for the higher ed software company, OmniUpdate. M.A. alum Kevin Voglino’s second novel, Tea Time Boys, will be released by RoguePhoenix Publishing in January 2013. M.F.A. alum Morowa Yejidé’s debut novel, Time of the Locust, which tells the story of an autistic boy who lives in a world of his own making and his supernatural relationship with his incarcerated father, will be published by Atria/Simon & Schuster in spring 2014.   �  Program Notes   The Write Life blog welcomes guest posts from faculty, students, and alumni. Email lori.may1@wilkes.edu for details. 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November 2019 n 2016 n n �discovered a way in which Wilkes could set itself apart from all other creative writing programs. "As I was looking through our program materials including bios, Revise This! and alum notes, I began a bibliography that included nearly a thousand items—books, films, collections, published plays, chapbooks, memoirs— physical pieces of published, produced work," Dr. Culver said. "We then tried to find any program, anywhere—residency or low-residency—that had amassed a collection of its creative works. We could find none, certainly nothing like what our program offered." Our goal was to create the largest single collection of a creative writing program in the world. By end of last year, the E. S. Farley Library Collection of Published Works was launched with donations received from faculty, alums, current students, and Advisory Board members. When I began my graduate assistantship in February 2016, the Library Collection was my first assignment. At the time, there were about 150 titles in the collection, and very few copies in the archive. My first goal was to review the list of titles in the collection, determine what was in the library, and what we were missing. From there, I determined how many copies we had of each title. Our goal was to obtain two copies of each title: one for circulation, and one for the archives. Along with the Program's library liaison, Carl "Eddie" Clem, I pored through the books donated to the Creative Writing Program. We also spent time searching the Farley Library shelves. We discovered that 248 titles were already in the collection. Many of these titles have copies in both the archives and on the shelves; but our work is not over, as there are many works not included in the collection. "The Library will include these works within its local catalog, as well as in WorldCat (www.worldcat.org), making the items discoverable worldwide. This collection will also become usable to those patrons outside of the Wilkes-Barre area via interlibrary loan, increasing discoverability and �exposure to the worldwide library community," says Clem. "We encourage the donation of a second copy for [the library's] Archives and Special Collections, to preserve the impact of the University and its graduates." The Library Collection has grown significantly with donations of published works by authors affiliated with the program, including Blue Moon Plays, Etruscan Press, Kaylie Jones Books, Northampton House Press, and SenArt Films, but we are far from reaching our goal. More than 1,000 titles are needed. Everyone can leave his or her mark! We're asking that current students, faculty, and alumni donate copies of their favorite work by a program-affiliated author. Each piece of the collection is notated with a golden medallion on the cover. Donated books contain a nameplate before the title page, stating who donated the book to the collection and recognizing the importance of good literary citizenship. The E.S. Farley Library Collection of Published Works cannot grow to be the largest collection without your help. The current list of published works in the collection may be found at http://wilkes.libguides.com/creativewritingcollection. Danie Watson is a graduate assistant for Etruscan Press and M.A. student in creative nonfiction in the Wilkes Graduate Creative Writing Program. She lives in Nanticoke, Pa. Five and a half questions for Susan Cartsonis by Lisa Greim Producer Susan Cartsonis has had a busy 2016. Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life opened Oct. 16; Carrie Pilby premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September; and Deidra and Laney Rob a Train finished principal photography in Utah last summer, and will be released as a Netflix Original in 2017. A member of the Creative Writing Program faculty and advisory board, Cartsonis founded Storefront Pictures to make "smart, high-quality films that appeal to female audiences." Along the way, she has championed the need for women in all aspects of the film industry – female directors, producers, screenwriters and investors. �I'll lead with a self-serving question. I write fction and memoir. What will make my manuscript something you want to option? If there's a good and original, and in some way, universal idea at the center of your story, then it might be a good prospect for adaptation to screen. That's not to say it can't be unique, but there has to be some core notion that is relatable. For example, everyone has felt "less than" or like an outsider, and so The Duff found a wide audience beyond its core of teenage girls. Deidra and Laney Rob a Train is a Netfix Original. Are projects for online distribution handled diferently than those for theatrical release?  I will let you know when I get through this process, but YES, I can tell it's different already. Netflix considers the online launch every bit as important as a premiere in movie theaters. There are different priorities surrounding publicity materials. And online distributors seem particularly knowledgeable about demographics that they can reach that might be ignored by theatrical distributors. The credits list for Carrie Pilby is full of women — director Susan Johnson, screenwriter Kara Holden (from the novel by Caren Lissner), and producing partners Suzanne McNeil Farwell and you. Is the needle for women in Hollywood moving at all, or are people just talking about this issue more? Talking about the issue creates awareness, which makes the needle move—but the needle or the proportions of women in film are the same paltry proportions as in the government and in big business. Interestingly, that proportion is healthier in independent film, where the financial barrier to entry is not as high. There's a Sundance/Women in Film study that looks at those stats—and endeavors to improve them. The main focus being: get women access to funding. I noticed all three of your current projects have YA roots. What about YA titles and topics appeals to you? I'm just a YA magnet because I'm immature. Seriously, I think that the vulnerability, questions about identity, and worldview of YA material appeals to me as something that we carry with us our entire lives. I like to think that the themes we explore will speak to audiences of all ages. Please tell a story that will make Wilkes screenwriters feel good about what they do. Wilkes screenwriters come from diverse perspectives and bring all sorts �of fresh experiences to the world of film. I personally now have two projects set in the Scranton area. Not being from Hollywood (and very few people are actually from Southern California) is an advantage in my opinion. We get tired of movies that reference the 405 freeway...and we long for stories that we connect with, that allow us to "take a vacation" to other places! What is it about movies? Why are they your life's work? I'm a storyteller and have been one since I was a small child. I started by telling stories to my four younger brothers and sisters to entertain them, wrote and performed plays in school and after school, and made my first film at 12. I love movies because they allow a storyteller to connect with a large audience, and create a shared perspective that has power to transcend differences of culture and specific experience. I've always known that storytelling and connecting with an audience is powerful and important. And I believe that in ways small and large, we can affect culture and influence the world. Lisa Greim is working on her M.A. in creative nonfiction from Wilkes University, when she isn't writing something else in Arvada, Colo.  Community Workshops will warm the winter Community Creative Writing Workshops will be offered on the WilkesBarre campus in February, March, and April. The six- and seven-week sessions, which cost $65, include: Intro to Poetry with Dawn Leas, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Mondays, Feb. 20 March 27 Advanced Techniques in Memoir Writing with Vicki Mayk, 6-8 p.m., Mondays, Feb. 27 - April 3 Playwriting Workshop: The One Act Play with Bonnie Culver, 6-8 p.m., Tuesdays, Feb. 21 – March 28 Creative Nonfiction: Taking the "I" and "Me" Out of Memoir with Rachael Hughes, 6-8 p.m., Tuesday, March 14 – April 25 (7 sessions) Intro to Screenwriting (Tools and Techniques) with Kelly Clisham, 6-8 p.m., Thursdays, Feb. 23 – March 30 Word Watering: Storytelling, Healing, and (Re)Constructing Identity with Virginia Grove, 9-11 a.m., Saturdays, March 4 – April 8 In addition, Dawn Zera will teach two Saturday sessions for children and teens on Feb. 4, Getting Serious About Creative Writing and Putting the Fun Back in Writing. Each are $10. �Full info and registration can be found on the Wilkes Creative Writing website. Wilkes Creative Writing Program at Mailer Conference Wilkes faculty, alums, and students participated in panels and presentations at the 14th Norman Mailer Society Conference, "Return to Long Branch," held Sept. 29 - Oct. 1 on the Monmouth University campus in West Long Branch, N.J. A panel, "Remembering Muhammad Ali" included Michael Mailer and John Buffalo Mailer. K.C. Leiber performed Bonnie Culver's one-woman play A Ticket to the Circus, based on Norris Church Mailer's memoir. The annual Wilkes reading  featured Mailer's unpublished first novel, No Percentage.  Student reminders Alums and faculty may nominate one incoming student in each cohort for the Pay It Forward scholarship, which applies $2,500 against his or her first semester's tuition. Students: The annual Etruscan Prize for the best single page in any genre will be judged this year by Etruscan author Myrna Stone. Deadline �is April 15, 2017. Winner receives a $100 honorarium, a complimentary subscription of Etruscan titles, and a limited edition broadside of the winning piece. "Send us one page: your best page, in any genre. It can be beginning, middle or end. It can be prose, script, or poetry. Send us a page that sings." Email your page as an attachment to books@etruscanpress.org. [ABOVE] David Poyer and Lenore Hart Poyer. Faculty News Gregory Fletcher's play Family of Flechner appears in the newly published anthology The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2016 by Smith & Kraus, Inc. Christine Gelineau's book Crave was a finalist in the poetry category for the 2016 CNY Book Awards, a program of the Syracuse YMCA's Downtown Writers Center. Winners were announced Dec. 8. Lenore Hart Poyer has a lot going on. Connecticut-based Graystone Press will include her poem "Crazy Quilt 1918" in Forgotten Women, an anthology due in early 2017. Her novel in progress, The Alchemy of Light, about a photographer of the dead who clashes with Thomas Edison, as the Great Genius is inventing the electric chair, was a semi- �finalist in the 2016 Faulkner-Wisdom "Words & Music" Novel Competition in August. Lenore gave a talk Oct. 6 at the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin, where she and David Poyer addressed a group there on – among other topics – the current American publishing landscape, and the necessity of book promotion for authors. She was invited to join the Irish Writers Union, and did so on Nov. 1. Finally, Lenore's latest Elisabeth Graves novel, published earlier in Norway by Egmont Boker (Oslo), was released in a first North American edition Oct. 11.  For the first time ever, Kaylie Jones and two Kaylie Jones Books authors were invited to participate at the Miami Book Fair in November. Kaylie moderated a panel with Barb Taylor (M.F.A. '15) and J. Patrick Redmond, on the important role indie presses like Akashic Press play in the increasingly commercialized world of fiction.  J. Michael Lennon's review of Avid Reader: A Life by Robert Gottlieb, former editor of The New Yorker, and editor-in-chief at Simon and Schuster and Alfred Knopf, will appear in an upcoming issue of the Times Literary Supplement (London). On Nov. 3, David Poyer and Lenore Hart attended a book launch at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, for On War and Politics (Naval Institute Press, November 2016), which Dave co-authored with General Arnold Punaro. Lenore also provided editorial assistance, received credit in the book, and got to meet her longtime hero, John Warner! Dave's new novel Onslaught (St. Martin's, 2016) received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, which described the 16th novel in the Dan Lenson series as "superb." Quarterdeck magazine said, "David Poyer's page-turning Lenson series, featuring all-too-real scenarios relating to current world affairs, sets the standard for present-day naval fiction."  Student and Alumni News Maxwell Bauman (M.F.A. '14)reports that Baphomitzvah won Best Screenplay in the November IndustryBOOST Audience Awards competition on GetIndieWise.com. Tom Borthwick's (M.F.A. '08) film Solacium, based on a previously published short story by Borthwick, debuted at the Belin Film Festival in October. Kait Burrier (M.F.A. '14) recently relocated to Madison, WI, where she �joined Ideas That Evoke, an award-winning boutique social media agency, as their first full-time copywriter. Tara Caimi (M.F.A. '10) presented "Fiction Techniques in Memoir: Using Craft Elements and Privileged Perspective to Engage Readers and Gain [ABOVE] Poem Fusion, Sangue della Radici Festival. Trust" at HippoCamp 2016. She developed and taught the five-week workshop "Crafting Creative Personal Essays and Memoir" for Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Penn State. On Nov. 3, Tara visited the English 212 Introduction to Fiction Writing class at Penn State to speak about guidelines for submitting short stories and essays. As an independent contractor, Tara took on the temporary role of managing editor for the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture, leading the charge to turn the association's member newsletter into a professional, broader-reaching journal. Craig Czury (M.F.A. '08) conducted a public Poem Fusion—multi-lingual poetry performance—at the Sangue della Radici Festival, Sept. 23, in Soncino, Italy. On Nov. 19, Czury presented his Coal Mines / Gas Lines at the British Council in Milano. Screenwriter Gabrielle D'Amico (M.A. '15) attended CineStory in October. Look for a future blog post about the experience on the redesigned Wilkes Write Life blog. Heather M. Davis (MFA '12) says: "You can now watch Completely Normal on Amazon and Vimeo! I helped with an early draft of the script and have a 'Story By' credit." Brian Fanelli (M.F.A. '10) During the September 20 program of "The Writer's Almanac," Garrison Keillor read Brian's poem, "Raking Leaves." He had a poem, "Halloween," published on Verse Daily. His �new book, Waiting for the Dead to Speak, was reviewed on the Best American Poetry blog, and he gave a radio interview for the program "Weekly Reader," hosted by graduate students at the University of Minnesota, Mankato. The Jersey Shore Writers held their first Holiday Book Convention & Open Mic on Dec. 11 at 3 p.m. at the Jersey Shore Arts Center. More than 20 New Jersey authors offered books for sale. Monique Antonette Lewis (M.F.A. '12) is now a travel writer for The Huffington Post. April Line (M.F.A. '15) has a new job, writing for the development and marketing department of the YWCA. Her Adipocere handmade vegan soap and Dr. Fictitious line of body care products are for sale at adipoceresoap.net. Donna Malies' (M.A. '11) one act play, Secrets She Kept, was produced for the Pensacola Little Theatre on Oct. 15. Gale Martin (M.F.A. '10) taught a creative writing workshop Nov. 26 at the Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro, Vt. Lori A. May (M.F.A. '13) has new writing in Time Out New York. She will be in New York this January leading a number of workshops and lectures. She is also a featured reader for January's At The Inkwell reading series at KGB Lit Bar, founded by alum Monique Antonette Lewis and hosted by alum Andi Talarico. In February, Lori will be speaking on a panel at AWP and signing books at the Bloomsbury booth in the AWP book fair. Todd McClimans' (M.A. '12) novel Time Underground, the second in a time-travel American History series, was named a Silver Medalist in the 2016 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards. The third book in the series, Time to Heal, will be released by Overdue Books on January 1, 2017. Two Wilkes writers were finalists in New Millennium Writings' 42nd contest:Ginger Marcinkowski (M.F.A. '11) in Flash Fiction for "Tsunami615" and Lisa Greim (M.A. student) in Fiction for "Walter Says Good Morning." Linda M.C. Nguyen (M.F.A. '14) will have a science-fiction short story published next year with Ember: A Journal of Luminous Things. She also worked on the WatchDogs 2 video game as a Legal Coordinator on the Narrative Team at Ubisoft Montreal. The game was released Nov. 15 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.  �Josh Penzone's (M.A. '13) short story "Falling Away" has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. It appeared in Five on the Fifth, an online journal. Josh's words of encouragement about submitting stories to literary magazines is the December feature on the Wilkes Write Life blog. The Importance of Sex Education, a short film written and directed by Laurie Elizabeth Powers (M.F.A. '13), was a top 21 finalist in the 2016 Louisiana Film Prize and took a Best Actress award at the festival. The film will begin making the festival rounds starting with the Lone Star Film Festival in Ft. Worth, Texas, where the filmmakers will be appearing for a Q&A, and the Idaho Laugh Fest in January, with others TBA. Screening schedule and trailer at www.importancemovie.com. Laurie's feature script Who I Am Now was an official selection in the LA Lift Off Film Festival and a top 10 finalist in the Northern Lights Screenplay contest. Dania Ramos (M.A. '10) was one of seven contributing playwrights for Women Rising: Stories of Hope, which was produced by Speranza Theatre Company in October.  Joy Smith (M.F.A. '13) had her article "Getting Students Excited About Analytical Writing" published in the September edition of AMLE Magazine (Association of Middle Level Educators). The article outlined a process for teaching students how to analyze literature in their writing and how individual conferencing and student ownership of the revision process served to improve academic writing and standardized test scores.  Donna Talarico's (M.F.A. '10, M.A. '16) article "What Does an Author's Website Need to Succeed?" was featured in the November edition of The Writer Magazine. She also presented a content writing workshop and conducted a multimedia storytelling workshop at the Higher Education Web Professionals' annual national conference in Memphis in October.  Douglas James Troxell's (M.A. '13) short story, "Epidemic," appeared in The Book of the Macabre, a morbid collection of twisted tales published by Dreamfusion Press. Ordering information can be found on Amazon or dreamfusionpress.com. Don't forget to like his author page on Facebook!  Quick Links Career Development �Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. 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December 2016 - Wilkes University.pdf https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/fda291aa9475af5eb06c28a4d2a7066a.pdf 8eb5b54d2dbb45594a5de141aa0298a7 PDF Text Text About Wilkes Home n Graduate Academics Academics n Graduate Admission & Aid Graduate Programs n Graduate Life Master's Degree Programs About Our Students n n The Arts Creative Writing MA/MFA Revise This! n Archives Fall 2018 - Revise This! September 2018 M.A. and M.F.A. Creative Writing Graduates Don their Caps in Summer Commencement   Revise This! 2017 2018 Revise This! November 2019 Revise This! Archives From left to right: Aurora Bonner, Pamela Turchin, Andre Carter, Samantha Patterson, Samantha Stanich, Julie Yelen and Kristin Weller. We congratulate the graduates of the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, who were awarded their diplomas at the summer commencement ceremony on Sunday afternoon, September 9, 2018, at Wilkes University: n 2018 n n �M.A. M.F.A. Jack Butler Aurora Michelle Bonner Chmielewski Andre Karla Erdman Carter Jessica Fisher Bibiana Krall Michael Hoarty Ann Miller Amanda Lance Pamela Sally Lehman Turchin Lori Mills Iris Ouellette Samantha Patterson Caterina So Samantha Stanich Cameron Thrall Kristen Weller Julie Yelen Alan Yount Congratulations to each of these members of our Wilkes writing community, and welcome to the newest members of the Wilkes Alumni Association! PWC and the Norman Mailer Writers Colony at Wilkes �  Andre: Andre Dubus III (The House of Sand and Fog) was the 2018 PWC keynote speaker. Jackie: Jacquelyn Mitchard (The Deep End of the Ocean) taught a workshop on "leaning into the pain" at PWC18 and taught a 4-day fiction workshop as part of the Norman Mailer Summer Writers Colony. Marita: Marita Golden (The Wide Circumference of Love) also taught fiction at the 2018 Norman Mailer Summer Writers Colony. The Pennsylvania Writers Conference is a yearly event hosted by the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University. Writers near and far come together for two days of craft, pedagogy, workshop, performance and of course, writing. This year's conference was held on August 3-4, 2018 and featured keynote speaker Andre Dubus III (The House of Sand and Fog) along with Jacquelyn Mitchard (The Deep End of the Ocean). The two-day conference featured classes on publication, a pitch session, writing through chaos and rebirth, teaching with rubrics and office hours with a publishing house editor (Nicole Frail, Skyhorse Publishing). With nearly 100 writers in attendance, PWC was a success. In January of 2018, program co-founder Dr. Bonnie Culver worked with Lawrence Shiller of the Norman Mailer Center to bring the Norman Mailer Writers Colony to Wilkes University. Previously held at the Mailer house in Providence, RI, the Norman Mailer Writers Colony classes are weeklong workshops taught by distinguished members of the writing �community. This year, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Marita Golden (The Wide Circumference of Love) and faculty member Ross Klavan taught classes in fiction and screenwriting. The weeklong classes bookended PWC with Golden teaching during week 1 (July 29-August 3) while Mitchard and Klavan taught during week 2 (August 5-10). For more information on the Norman Mailer Writers Colony, please visit nmcenter.org. Sanding the Rough Edges: PWC and the Norman Mailer Writers Colony By Iris Ouellette (M.A. '18) The Pennsylvania Writers Conference took place during the first weekend in August, flanked by two weeks of workshops at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony. Featuring an engaging keynote address by Andre Dubus III, author of The House of Sand and Fog, PWC gave both regional and national writers the opportunity to interact with their peers and role models. The weekend, full of classes and comradery with fellow writers, instilled in me (and presumably in each of the attendees) a sense of community and belonging. The first PWC workshop I attended, on Historical Narrative, was taught by Joseph Kraus, one of the foremost experts on Jewish gangsters in Chicago. He spoke to us about weaving seemingly scattered pieces of history into a cohesive narrative, referencing the boxes and boxes of material he had to sort through to form the narratives of his first and second novels. Educators in attendance were treated to a workshop on teaching with rubrics that proved invaluable as I began my career as a professor in September. We were given sample rubrics and taught how to break them down into understandable terms for our students. As a new teacher, I was incredibly thankful for this opportunity because it's difficult to get hands-on experience with grading tools before being thrown into the classroom. Jacquelyn Mitchard, waylaid by weather, unfortunately missed the plenary session originally in the schedule. Fortunately, this meant that she led a workshop – one that ended up being the weekend's most memorable for me. Her workshop dealt with "leaning into" the pain we so often shy away from as writers. She stressed the importance of writing about our traumas and painful experiences and asked each person in attendance (there were at least twenty) to write down five topics about which we've never written. She then asked us to share one. What happened as a result was an intense sense of love and understanding within the room. People spoke about divorce, disease, abuse, mental health, family relationships, and more with unflinching �honesty and courage. On the final night of PWC, Andre and Jackie shared the stage, offering readings that left us in the audience perhaps teary but feeling whole. Following their readings, the two authors, both with books in Oprah's Book Club, offered a Q&A and engaged with the audience for nearly an hour. It was incredibly valuable to those of us in the audience who are unpublished to see two published authors describe their writing processes since they were so very different. Seeing established authors explain that they, too, experience self-doubt is a pleasant reminder that we're all right. That night, with the encouragement of Jackie, I was able to write about a topic I've avoided for years. Her workshop during PWC proved a successful audition for the class I took with her and three other people during the Norman Mailer Writers Colony. Jackie then led a four-day Mailer Colony class on story endings, during which four attendees shared the first 25 pages of our current projects and offered critiques. A successful writing workshop such as this one has the potential to sand the rough edges of our projects without killing the spirit that caused us to create in the first place. We were also given well-known first and last sentences of stories and novels and asked to mimic them, because as Jackie taught us, writing like the masters makes our own writing much better. The most valuable aspect of this class for me was my individual meeting with Jackie. We spoke, of course, about my project, but also about my overarching aspirations as a writer. She provided me with both encouragement and concrete tips for reaching my goals, as well as sharing more than a few laughs and tears. I cannot recommend the Pennsylvania Writers Conference and the Norman Mailer Writers Colony enough. If you are a writer in any sense of the word, you must surround yourself with like-minded individuals periodically, even if only once a year. It recharges your writerly batteries. It makes you feel less like an impostor. It reminds you of your purpose. �Mailer Conference returning in October The 16th annual Norman Mailer Society Conference will be held at the Macon City Center Marriott Hotel, in Macon, GA from Thursday October 25 to Saturday October 27, 2018. Mailer was the first founding advisory board member of the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, and students and faculty from the CW program have read and performed his work for the last 15 years as part of the Wilkes U Readers Theatre. This year faculty, alums and students will read from a script based upon Mailer's Why Are We in Vietnam? The Norman Mailer Summer Writers Colony is now held at Wilkes University! We will once again be offering two weeks of craft, pedagogy and workshops with New York Times and members of our faculty. For more information about the Norman Mailer Writers Colony at Wilkes University, please visit this link.  Fall �Community Workshops Sharpen your skills and jump into writing with our Fall Community Writing Workshops! Generating from the Senses With Diane Ackerman's A Natural History of the Senses as our guide, we will explore the common five senses: smell, touch, taste, hearing, and vision. This workshop for adults of all ages is meant to be generative in nature, enabling writers the option of composing in any genre they see fit for a given assignment. This workshop is appropriate for anyone looking to create a more regular space for writing, anyone looking to enrich an inprogress piece, and anyone wanting to learn more about themselves and how memory and our senses connect. Students will be expected to purchase a copy of A Natural History of the Senses and to complete readings within each of the five-sense sections, in addition to weekly writing assignments. Meetings: Fridays – 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Dates: September 21, 28, October 5, 12, 26 and November 2 (No meeting on October 19) Cost: $65.00 for the entire series Instructor: Virginia Grove Get Real! A Memoir Workshop Want to write memoir but don't know where to start? Afraid to? Great. Join me on a six-week journey on opening up and facing the hard stuff that just needs to be told. The premise of most memoir is to write it out to �get past it, but to leave a trail of wisdom and comfort for your readers to follow you into your next creative work. This workshop for adults of all ages will rely on writing prompts, sharing of works, and tips and advice from someone in the field who's "been there and done that!" Another component of this will be to tear down the insecurities of being a writer who writes about sensitive material. It is my hope this workshop will empower you to share your story, so that you and your readers will benefit from your journey. Meetings: Saturdays – 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Dates: September 8, 15, 22, 29, October 13 and 20 (No meeting on October 6) Cost: $65.00 for the entire series Instructor: Rachael Hughes Jazz Poetry Workshop This five-week workshop for adults of any age will be a combination of looking at the genre of Jazz Music as an eclectic way of being that permeates lifestyle, fashion, language, culture and poetry. The goals of the workshop are to increase the appreciation for and knowledge of this genre of music and the integration of poetry within that frame, to have basic information of the history of Jazz and the musicians who created this art form and the culture it spawned for over one hundred years. To look at the early poets who used the language, signature rhythms and styles to craft a new way of writing and seeing. To look at the performative aspects of Jazz Poetry as its own art form and appreciate the contributions of those early musicians and poets. To have each participant create a chapbook of Jazz poems. Using various techniques of poetry and oral recitation, participants will create and hone their poetic muscles into crafting Jazz Poems and at the same time critical skills to help write and listen to the music and poetry of this uniquely American art form. Selected music and poetry will be listened to in workshops. Handouts and a schedule of both works to be listened to, articles on the subject as well as in depth focus on stages of development of chapbook and rewrites as a result of the workshop process. Budding poets, closet poets and intimidated poets of all levels are welcome. Meetings: Saturdays – 1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Dates: September 29, October 6, 13, 20 and 27 Cost: $65.00 for the entire series �Instructor: Rashidah Ismaili Abubakr To register for a community workshop, please visit wilkes.augusoft.net. Wilkes at AWP19 The 2019 AWP Conference & Bookfair will be held at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon from March 27 – 30, 2018. Current students are invited to apply for an AWP19 registration waiver, which covers the cost of conference registration. Transportation and housing will be at your expense. Contact Associate Director Bill Schneider at bill.schneider@wilkes.edu for more information. In exchange for your conference waiver, students are required to spend a minimum of two hours each day working at the Wilkes/Etruscan booth. Working the booth is a great way to network with authors, publishers, and other graduate students from around the country while promoting the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing to potential students. The full AWP19 schedule will be released in October, and more information can be found at www.awpwriter.org. While you're in Portland, swing by these sessions and support the Wilkes CW family, including program partners Akashic Books and Etruscan Press: Etruscan Press Authors Kazim Ali (The Disappearance of Seth) • Fifty Years of FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics • Reinventing the Wheel: The Tradition of Innovation in Poetry Patti Horvath (All the Difference) • Rewriting History: Why It's Not Okay to Fictionalize Our Memories David Lazar (Who's Afraid of Helen of Troy: An Essay on Love) • Que savent-ils?: What Classic Essays Can Teach Contemporary Essayists Paul Lisicky (The Burning House) • Endings for the End Times? J. D. Schraffenberger (Saint Joe's Passion) • Changing of the Guard: Editors on Inclusion and Diversity in Literary Journals • Impact and Empathy: Service-Learning and Creative Writing �Tim Seibles (Fast Animal and One Turn Around the Sun) • How we need another soul to cling to: Writing Love Poems in Difficult Times • Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology Reading Shara McCallum (Poems and Their Making) • Boulevard 35th Anniversary & 100 Issues Reading Wilkes University Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing  Jason Carney and Bill Schneider (Wilkes University Alumni) • AWP Open Mic and Old School Slam Program Partners Ibrahim Ahmad (Akashic Books) • Can I Pick Your Brain? The Fine Line Between Giving Back and Getting Paid Faculty News Lenore Hart's short story, "Thirteen Ways of Living With a Wolf, appeared in the July issue of The Florida Review. It was a finalist for their 2017 Editors' Fiction Prize. Her poem "The Well-Shooter's Wake" was a finalist for the Charter Oak Prize for Historicals. That poem and another, "On Visiting the Castle of My Drawn and Quartered Ancestor", will be published in Alternating Current's Notes #4 this fall. Lenore was also invited to attend the annual gathering of the Connecticut Poetry Society in New Haven, CT. There, she gave a reading of "Struck By Light", which won the 2017 Connecticut River Review Poetry Prize. Lenore also was featured in The Horror Tree, which is a resource for both new and experienced writers. Ross Klavan's new noir novella, I Take Care of Myself, which is out in September, received a favorable review from Publisher's Weekly. Jean Klein published a new blog on Havescripts/Blue Moon Plays with mention of both Wilkes and Dr. Culver. Nancy McKinley's short story "Hand Against the Horn" is published in the Timberline Review Issue 7, with the theme of Rebirth, August 2018.  Student/Alumni News Molly Barari (M.F.A. '17) has been chosen to speak about the �importance of life story writing for the 2018 Black Hills Aging Gracefully Expo in September. Randee Bretherick (M.F.A. '13) under the name Randee Green published her first mystery novel on July 1, 2018. CRIMINAL MISDEEDS is the first novel in the Carrie Shatner Mystery series. Janine P. Dubik (M.A. '17) is among the poets selected for the 2018 Poetry in Transit in conjunction with the Luzerne County Transportation Authority in the Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, area. The 2018 theme is unbreakable, and Janine's poem is entitled "Touchstone." This is the third consecutive year that Janine has been part of Poetry in Transit. The six-line poems are displayed on illustrated panels that rotate among all LCTA bus routes for the next year. The official launch of the 2018 Poetry in Transit was held at 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17, at the Wilkes University/King's College Barnes & Noble on South Main Street in downtown Wilkes-Barre.  Rachael Hughes (M.F.A. '13) will be launching her debut memoir Us Girls: My Life Without a Uterus at the Barnes & Noble Wilkes Kings Bookstore on September 22, 2018 at 7 p.m. Tara Lynn Marta (M.A. '18) had an essay "The Dream Lives On" included in the I Am Strength anthology, which was released on August 26th, in honor of Women's Equality Day. Tara read her essay at KGB Bar in NYC on August 29, 2018. Josh Penzone's (M.A. '13) short story "A Soldier's Story" appeared in the July issue of Blue Lake Review.    Donna Talarico (M.F.A. '15) coordinator and creator of Hippocamp, A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers was featured in the Living section of the Lancaster Paper. Donna's publishing �endeavor, Hippocampus Magazine and Books, was featured in LNP as well, along with an interview with Hippocampus Magazine and Books' flagship author Rebecca Fish Ewan.        Alyssa Waugh (M.F.A. '15) curated and edited an anthology titled I AM STRENGTH, which was released on August 26, 2018. I AM STRENGTH is a collection of true stories, poems, and art created by women from all walks of life, championing our everyday struggles and triumphs. Alan Yount (M.A. '18) had an essay, "Syllogisms" published by Not Your Mother's Breast Milk in June and "The Paddle" was published August's Hippocampus Magazine. Danie Watson (M.A. '18) began teaching at Lackawanna College as an adjunct instructor in August 2018. Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Online Nursing Make A Gift �Programs E.S. 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About Wilkes Home n Graduate Academics Academics n Graduate Admission & Aid Graduate Programs n Graduate Life Master's Degree Programs n The Arts Creative Writing MA/MFA n About Our Students n Revise This! October 2020 Cha-Cha-Changes! This year, more than most, has been a year of lasts…and firsts. CoFounder and Program Director, Dr. Bonnie Culver, celebrated her last About Our Students Get Social with term before retirement. The Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Creative Writing hosted its first online Residency. Associate Director Bill Revise This! Schneider accepted another position in the airline industry, and Joyce Anzalone orchestrated her last groups of cohorts, as she too retired. And, Revise This! for the first time in program history, the Wilkes creative writing community Archives welcomes its new director, Dr. David Hicks. River & South Review In this edition of Revise This!, Bill Schneider shares his tale of transition in Onward and Upward. Vicki Mayk (M.F.A. ’13) shares news of her debut book, Growing Up on the Gridiron (September 2020). You can read our interview about her Wilkes experience, her pathway to publication, and her advice for worried writers still wrestling with the first-draft process. Best-selling author and recent Wilkes alum Jennifer McLaughlin explores how her Wilkes writing life continues on, even after graduation. Finally, three current students reveal how a virtual residency compares to a traditional one. Testimonials Apply Online Request More Information g �Program Updates The January 2021 Residency will take place online, from January 816.  Morgan M.X. Shulz of Wilmington, NC is this year’s winner of the James Jones First Novel Fellowship, a $10,000 prize. Jessie Roy of Chicago, IL is the runner-up ($1000). Michael Mailer (Film) and Nina Solomon (Fiction) have decided not to teach for our program any longer. We thank them for their superb teaching and wish them all the best. Beginning next fall, we will be offering online Master Classes (CW 698: Post-Graduate Project Revision) in every genre for graduates of MA/MFA programs like ours. In this six-credit class, students will receive expert guidance on how to advance a manuscript to its final version and how to submit it to agents and editors. Also beginning next fall, we will offer online 15-week versions of our Foundations classes as part of a “4+1” (a combined BA/MA) class at several universities, as well as to adults interested in an introduction to creative writing. The MFA “Letter of Intent,” for all students in the MA program who would like to continue to the MFA program, is due November 1. Onward and Upward Refections from Bill Schneider (M.F.A.’14) Thursday, June 4, 2020 More than 1.8 million cases and over 101,000 deaths related to COVID19 in the United States were reported today by the CDC. Today is my first day of retirement following my seven-year affiliation with Wilkes University where I served as a graduate assistant in Marketing Communications, Managing Editor for Etruscan Press and Associate Program Director for the Creative Writing Program. I had hoped today would be the start of a new life chapter: traveling all around the world while I savor the cocktail hour of my life journey, similar to The Life of Riley. Boy was I wrong! �Since being quarantined on March 17th, I got a head start on being home full-time as life dramatically changed. Program alum and Wilkes University’s Executive Director of Communications and Graduate Marketing — Gabrielle D’Amico M.F.A.’17 — said it best of all in a recent email: “I'm sorry your final weeks at Wilkes feel like the Twilight Zone.” Earlier this year, I accepted an offer to be a consultant with my former employer from the 1970s. This new opportunity is based in Chicago, the headquarters and a major gateway for United Airlines, where I will have access and resources to produce video segments about airline employees and retirees and their travel experiences. With nearly 100,000 employees on the United team, storytelling is integral to the culture of this legacy airline. The stories I will share through the company’s intranet portal have a common theme: heartache and hope. My commitment is to bring light to the United community, especially because too much darkness clouds the horizon. Preparing for the transition Working with co-founder and program director Bonnie Culver since January, when I announced my retirement, we focused on developing a handbook to provide the new program director with a road map for the day-to-day activities to support the Maslow Family Creative Writing Graduate Program. To provide some context, Bonnie and I were retiring at the same time as Joyce Anzalone who oversees administration of our program. Ross Klavan says, “Between Bonnie, Bill and Joyce, the entire knowledge of how the program works is in their hands … each of them connecting/networking, and talking the faculty in and out of corners.”  By mid-March, our focus shifted. We began to prepare for the June residency to be delivered entirely online. This tireless effort required all hands-on-deck while each day brought more grim news about the pandemic.  Preparing for a virtual residency Bonnie immediately reached out to the entire faculty to begin discussions, brainstorm, and conceptualize online residency modules. The transition from face-to-face teaching to a virtual Zoom platform provided Bonnie and the faculty with the perfect opportunity for the program to re-emerge as the first-class program it is. This seamless transition evolved because of one component: the sense of community that permeates throughout the Wilkes Creative Writing Program. I think of this as harmony and grace, the ingredient that first attracted me to the Wilkes program in 2011. A major challenge in rolling out the June residency as a virtual experience was how to replicate that special ingredient that creates �community. As I prepared to retire from Wilkes, the world began to change as the pandemic closed international borders. Throughout the country, cities and states continued to escalate self-quarantine mandates. The entire world was on lock-down.  As Memorial Day arrived, the June residency was about to begin. The community of writers that comes together twice a year to share work and renew friendship continues to be the fabric of a tapestry woven from the spirit of our remarkable faculty. Friday, June 5, 2020 The stay-at-home order was lifted today for Pennsylvania residents in Luzerne County. This release from home confinement was conditional because I still do not have the freedom to travel anywhere in the world. There is no longer a welcome mat for Americans in many other countries, and most domestic travel requires a 14-day quarantine upon arrival. Flying for a weekend getaway is something from the past. Fortunately, I am a writer and an editor, both of which require solitary confinement. Instead of packing for my move to the Windy City, today is the day my movers notified me they will not travel to Illinois because of the high number of COVID-19 cases. Tuesday, September 1, 2020 More than six million cases and over 183,000 deaths related to COVID19 in the United States were reported today by the CDC. It has been 13 weeks since my retirement began. Every day it has been buns on the bench. I have focused on my writing and the never-ending connection to the Wilkes Creative Writing community. This is the connective tissue that keeps me grounded, hopeful, and confident. As coffee percolates, or later in the day, a martini shakes, I recall the advice offered by my Wilkes mentors. One of the most resonate suggestions came from Dr. Nancy McKinley during my first CW-501 workshop. The writing prompt, about the beauty of Wilkes-Barre in the middle of winter, forced me to look beyond the potholes. Writing is about doing the best you can and making the most with what you have.  What is certain about tomorrow is that it will be a better day than today. Bill Schneider (MFA’14) is the managing editor of Etruscan Press. He served as the associate program director of the Wilkes University Maslow Family Graduate Creative Writing Program from 2015 through 2020. His �previous experience includes a three-decade long career in the music industry accompanied by extensive travel throughout six continents. Interview with Vicki Mayk (M.F.A. ’13) For any bibliophiles that get the opportunity to sit down with their favorite authors for a Q&A, one of the questions that is bound to come up is something along the lines of “Where do you get your inspiration, your ideas?” While this might be a fascination topic to dig into, what I find more fascinating is learning, as a writer, how the story chooses you. I recently had the opportunity to work with Vicki Mayk on her Write Life post, “When the Story Chooses You.” We were discussing her writing experiences as a student at Wilkes and her pathway to publishing Growing up on the Gridiron: Football, Friendship, and the Tragic Life of Owen Thomas, published and released by Beacon Press in September. Our phone conversation stretched from one hour to two and her story about learning how to tell someone else’s true story emerged, along with several challenges unique to the nonfiction genre. I invite you to sit in on part of our conversation about the art of research and the craft of creative nonfiction. Who or what drew you in to the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing? I had always wanted to earn an MFA in writing. I actually had entered a program at the University of Pittsburgh back in the 1970s (yes, I’m that old), but that was before there were low-residency programs. Unable to go to school and work full-time, I put the dream on hold after one semester. Fast forward to 2009: When I was hired by Wilkes University, I realized that I could finally earn the master’s degree I had always wanted. I had worked as a writer for my entire career – but the program changed my life, opening up new ways to tell a story. You have some exciting news...a recently published on book! Can you �tell us a little bit about that project? What is this book about? Growing Up On The Gridiron: Football, Friendship and the Tragic Life of Owen Thomas is about University of Pennsylvania football player Owen Thomas who died by suicide in 2010. After his death, he was found to be the youngest amateur player at that time found to have the traumatic brain injury CTE – which was being found in former pro players and was linked to playing football. The book is about his short but remarkable life and about young men’s love affair with the game for football.  What was it about this story that sunk its hooks into you and drew you into this commitment to another long form project? This was a case of “the story chose me.”  What really drew me in was Owen Thomas, the young man who is at the center of my book. When he died by suicide in April 2010, I was invited to join a private memorial page that friends set up for him on Facebook. The way that everyone talked about him – from his teammates at his high school near Allentown, PA, and on the University of Pennsylvania Quakers team to friends, former teachers, casual acquaintances – haunted me. They told stories about him being a warrior on the field and one of the kindest humans off the field. One girl in his high school said Owen changed the energy when he entered a room. I wanted to answer the question: Who was Owen Thomas and how did his life come to this tragic end? When it emerged that he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, what we know as CTE, that added another important dimension to the story.  The path to publication is unique for every author. Can you tell us a little about your path to publication? What kinds of challenges did you fnd your way around with this project? Because I had a full-time day job, the interviewing and research for this book had to be done at night and on weekends. What I had originally envisioned as a two- to three-year project actually took nearly eight years �from the time I started interviews and research to a finished draft. (And we all know that there is always more revision ahead.) I was dragging my heels, so I took an independent study with Mike Lennon and was able to complete a draft. He urged me to submit to agents and I was signed by one in 2018. But I was far from done. Everyone who had seen the manuscript – me, Mike and my agent– envisioned a significant revision. I worked with my agent to create a book proposal that outlined a slightly different direction for the book. The book was actually sold on the basis of that proposal – not on the manuscript. When I began working with my editor at Beacon Press, Joanna Green, she and I had a similar vision for the book. It involved developing the stories of Owen’s friends and required me to do some additional research and interviews. Yes, more research after nearly eight years of working on the book.  I completely revised the existing manuscript in about six months in 2019. What did you learn about yourself as a writer through the many stages of creation, revision, and release?  I learned that it was a good thing that I had a long career making my living as a writer who was required to meet deadlines. (I’m laughing as I answer this.) All joking aside, I now see that all those years of writing on deadline have made me a slave to deadlines. If I have a deadline, I will meet it. That is why I finally took an independent study to finish the book. The deadline forced me to do it. I was able to revise it in six months because my editor was holding me to specific deadlines. Even after all these years as a writer, I’m trying to figure out how to create a structure that puts me in the deadline mindset – even when there’s no “real” deadline. I guess that’s a challenge we all face About craft? The biggest takeaway about craft was that we always have something to learn. I had been a journalist for years before entering the program, but in writing this book, I realized that I was able to write it because of what I learned studying creative nonfiction in the program. Day-to-day journalism can fall into a “just the facts” approach. The craft elements that I learned at Wilkes – to use the techniques of fiction to tell a true story -allowed me to do things in the book I might not have attempted earlier in my career. It includes things like recreating scenes and dialogue.  If you could offer a few words of wisdom or a piece of advice that has served you well through the rough parts of the writing process, what would you most like to gift to other �writers hitting those rough patches? Don’t doubt yourself: it’s really easy to fall prey to impostor syndrome. You’ll hear your inner critic asking, “Who do you think you are to write this book?” While working on my book, I came across a quote from LinManuel Miranda, who wrote “Hamilton.” He said, “You have to live with the notion of, ‘If I don’t write this, no one’s going to write it. If I die, this idea dies with me.’” Remember that you have a story that only you can tell. How have the members of our Wilkes community supported you as a writer? Is there anyone you would like to give a shout-out to? Perhaps a few key people? I received so much encouragement from so many people in our creative writing community. If you read the  ments in my book, I call Mike Lennon my “literary godfather.” I think there were times I kept going because I couldn’t stand the idea of disappointing Mike. I also received sound advice from Bev Donofrio, Kevin Oderman, Kaylie Jones and Jeff Talarigo. Dawn D’Aries Zera was the person who first told Mike about my book and she insisted I talk to him about it. And my writing group was an important source of support. They are all Wilkes alums from many different cohorts: Aurora Bonner, Kelly Clisham, Jennifer Jenkins and Francisco Tutella. The book title came out of a brainstorming session with them. Wilkes and the Afterlife By Jen McLaughlin A lot of people (or, at least, I’m assuming a lot of people) think that once you leave the Wilkes University Maslow Family Graduate Program…it’s game over. You never speak to your faculty again, never see your cohort, forget all your friends, and cry into an endless eternity of deadlines and graded papers. I’m here to tell you… YOU’RE WRONG! That’s right, I said it. You’re wrong.  Now, you might be thinking to yourself, “Who is this Jen girl anyway? Who is she to tell me what I know and what I don’t know?” Well, I’m you. Or, I was you, depending on where you are in the program. Whether you are entering it now, considering entering it, in it, or recently graduated, I’m here to tell you that what you’re getting from the program isn’t just some fancy letters or some sharpened writing tools…though those are �pretty amazing, too. What you’re getting is a community. Friends. A family. You see, my cohort (arguably the best cohort EVER…just ask anyone on the faculty—especially Nancy McKinley) graduated with our M.A. in September 2019, and those of us who went on to earn our MFA will graduate this September (in 2020, the cursed year that will forever live on in infamy). Though some of my cohort has been done for over a year, guess what? We are still friends. We still write together. Not even a pandemic stopped us. Let that sink in for a minute. I’ll wait. While the world was begging for us to stop writing, to lose our creativity because who the heck could create anything among chaos and pain and fear…we did it. We created, we supported one another, and we didn’t give up.  Because we’re family. Sure, we did it via Zoom once a week (something we will be continuing once we all return to the classrooms to teach and learn), and sure, we talked about a lot more than just our work, but you know what? It kept me going, kept me thinking, and most importantly? My cohort/friends/family kept me writing. The writing life is so valuable to us as writers and artists, and when you lose that, you lose a piece of yourself. Well, fear not. When you enter this program, and when you leave it, you will maintain a strong bond to those who went through those residencies with you, who poured over your words as if they were your own, and who cheered you on as you read your work out loud for a room full of people…and so will the faculty.  My mentor, the amazing and indestructible Nancy McKinley, never stopped having my back, or offering me opportunities, and quite frankly, I truly hope my time in the program, though officially finished, never ends. Rather, I hope it expands in many other ways, and that I can take the knowledge this program and my forty-nine published books have given me, and I can continue to build that community, friendships, and family the program gave me. My only remaining question to you, if you’re not with us yet, is… What’s holding you back, besides perhaps yourself? About Jen McLaughlin Jen McLaughlin is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of many genres and types. The Unforgiven Kingdom came to life when she couldn’t find her daughter’s bedtime story, and by the end of the "bedtime story" she realized she �had the first chapter of a book. As a lover of adventure and chaos, she strives to tell tales of strong female leads that take readers to unseen worlds. Jen was mentioned in Forbes alongside E. L. James as one of the breakout independent authors to dominate the bestselling lists. Jen resides in Pennsylvania with her husband, four kids, one dog, and five cats. She spends her time writing, and teaching high school and college students how to write creatively. Jen earned her MFA in Creative Writing at Wilkes University and is currently pursuing her Doctorate of Education. She is represented by Louise Fury at The Bent Agency. Faculty News Gregory Fletcher’s short story “Ismene in Venice” is included in the new anthology The Night Bazaar: Venice, published by Northampton House Press. Lenore Hart is pleased to announce a new volume in The Night Bazaar series, Northampton House Press' fantastic fiction anthologies. Volume two is entitled The Night Bazaar Venice: Thirteen Tales of Forbidden Wishes and Dangerous Desires. Hart is the series editor and contributor of the story, "Plenty of Fish in the Sea". Short stories by Wilkes alums Dana Miller, Corinne Nulton, Frances Williams (writing as Aphrodite Anagnost), and Carol MacAllister, along with faculty members Kaylie Jones and Gregory Fletcher, are featured as well. Additionally, Hart has published two poems, "Looking Into the Eyes of a Woman I Must Tell She's a Writer" and "Hypatia in the Library" in AMERICAN WRITERS REVIEW 2020 (San Fedele Press). Two Poems, "The Well-Shooter's Wake" and "On Visiting the Castle of My Drawn and Quartered Ancestor" were published in *FOOTNOTE 4: A LITERARY JOURNAL OF HISTORY (Alternating Current Press). Ross Klavan has a new novella due to be published in October by Down & Out books. It's another in a series of noir crime stories, this one entitled, “Cut Loose All Those Who Drag You Down”. It is part of a compilation– three authors, three crime novellas– the book is called Third Degree. David Poyer via Northampton House Press announced the publication of the trade paper edition of Susan Mailer's memoir In Another Place; With and Without My Father, Norman Mailer, available worldwide beginning September 1. The 2019 hardcover was critically praised, and the new edition contains all the text and photos of the original $27.95 edition. It is also available in e-book format. �Additionally, Poyer also published a short story in the latest edition a dark fantasy anthology entitled The Night Bazaar Venice: Thirteen Tales of Forbidden Wishes and Dangerous Desires. Set in 1348, the year the Black Plague arrived in Italy, "The Thousand Injuries of Fortunato" prequels Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" in explaining exactly why Fortunato richly deserved to be bricked up in Montresor's catacombs. Alumni News Jennifer Bokal (M.A. 2010) will release her eleventh novel, Colton's Secret History, in September 2020 and her twelfth novel, Agent's Mountain Rescue, in November 2020. Both are being released by Harlequin Romantic Suspense. This fall, Jennifer will be teaching online workshops at Broome Community College; Painless Novel Writing and Solving the Publishing Puzzle. Jennifer is currently president of RWA's newest chapter, Aged to Perfection Seasoned Romance Writers of America--where they believe that love is timeless. Todd Conner (M.A. 2019) launched an audio podcast called The Cariorker in December 2019.  For Season One he translated, produced and performed 13 short stories by Machado de Assis, Brazil’s most renowned literary son. Season One was cut short by the pandemic, but Season Two is slated to begin in November on location from Rio de Janeiro, when he will deconstruct and interpret the early classics of Samba and Choro for American ears. The Cariorker is available on major podcast platforms and at www.thecariorker.com. Two poems by Caitlin Downs (M.A. 2020) were included in the anthology Erase the Patriarchy published by University of Hell Press, which is available for purchase (August, 2020). She was awarded a new contract and faculty status at the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design and will be establishing the new writing center this fall. Cooper Gorelick (M.A. 2017) wrote a one-act play titled "A Fragment of the Day" (which was specifically written for "drive-by" theater). His play is set to be produced in early October in Cherry Hill, NJ. Tara Marta (M.A. 2018) had her first novel, Look Back to Yesterday, published in June. She was recently interviewed about her book on PA Live and VIA Radio. On Thursday, August 27th she offered a virtual reading and Q&A for the Abington Community Library. Bill Schneider (M.F.A. 2014) announced his retirement as assistant program director of the Maslow Family Creative Writing Graduate Program at Wilkes University. Ora Smith (M.A. 2017) is pleased to announce her book, The Pulse of His Soul: The Story of John Lothropp, a Forgotten Forefather was released on September 8, 2020. This is Ora's first historical novel to be published. Previously, she has illustrated and written a children's picture book titled A Christmas Story of Light released in 2018. �Michael Soloway (M.F.A. 2014) founded a digital magazine in June at AuthenticityMags.com. The goal is to publish articles with unique voices from authentic people, so others can find their authentic selves. Their motto is: For the People. By the People. They have several Wilkes alumni contributing, but they always need more. Please reach out via michael@authenticitymags.com! He would love your feedback and participation! Student News Andree Catalfamo won Honorable Mention for her poem, "Expendable", in the annual Passager Journal poetry contest. The poem was published in September 2020. She also had a short story, "Blooms," published in June 2020 in Yellow Arrow Journal. Tonya Chadi’s poem Lately was accepted for publication by IndolentBooks.com What Rough Beast. It was posted 7/11/20. 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Analytical Papers in the Community Page and Stage: Alum Creates Opportunities | Announcements Faculty/Staff Notes | Student/Alum Notes   Related Links Calendars & Schedules Campus Map Centers for Excellence Faculty Publications Graduate Bulletin (.pdf) Third Novel for Alum Gale Martin Graduate Bulletin Online Graduate Student Handbook Library   Office of the Registrar Online Learning In Gale Martin’s newest novel, Who Killed Professional Pharmacy ‘Tom Jones’?, receptionist Ellie Overton is Application gaga for the pop singer Tom Jones. She School of Nursing - Graduate meets a handsome impersonator at a Tom Program Student Handbook Jones Festival but when he’s accused of Schools, Departments, killing the competition, Ellie’s not quite sure Divisions n n �he’s the one for her. Enter M.A. alum Gale Martin and her romantic, comedic, and curious personality.   “When I was in college, my closest childhood friend married an Elvis impersonator—when white-fringed-jumpsuit Elvis wannabes were popular,” Gale says. “I saw how women behaved around these impersonators and wondered what my friend’s married life must have been like. This notion stayed with me, for decades longer than my friend’s marriage lasted, until I was searching my soul for a hook for a NaNoWriMo book in 2008, and this idea popped into my head.” Tom Jones is Gale’s third novel. Since graduating from Wilkes, the author has steadily worked on one project after another, kept up her blogging and social media efforts, and tried to be as active in the community as possible. “Life after Wilkes is as challenging as I thought it might be,” Gale says. “At first I missed the Wilkes CW Program terribly— the interaction with other writers and faculty—but found ways to ameliorate my separation anxieties.” Gale has participated in a number of reading events and also started a writing workshop to continue the exchange of constructive feedback. Many of the participants are fellow Wilkes members. “In fact, this group, which now includes Nancy McKinley and Donna Talarico-Beerman,” Gale says, “were so helpful with my finishing and polishing Who Killed ‘Tom Jones’? that I dedicated the novel to them.” What’s next for Gale Martin? She says, “you’re only as good as your last novel,” so she’s already at work on her next manuscript.     M.F.A. Analytical Papers in the Community As part of the M.F.A. program, students a 6-credit course in literary analysis. The culmination of this term is an analytical �paper of publishable quality. Yet some graduates are taking their thesis topics off the page and into the community. M.F.A. alum Erin Miele built a course based on her topic for Misericordia University. “As someone who both paints and writes,” Erin says, “I chose to explore affinities between visual art and literature in my M.F.A. thesis, Painted Words. Under the excellent Nancy McKinley’s mentorship, I devised a syllabus for a college course on the theme, with a plan to include a range of writers and visual artists.” Some of the writers Erin included are Yeats, Walcott, Sexton, Italo Calvino, and Flannery O’Connor. The painters ranged from Van Eyck to Anselm Kiefer. “The primacy of the visual image in writing was emphasized, as was ‘reading’ a painting,” Erin says. “We also took a look at a variety of ekphrastic works.” Erin is teaching two sections of the course this spring. Alum Jeff Minton’s analytical paper included a discussion about music and writing and, specifically, about “scoring a narrative in a similar way as orchestral music is scored.” Together with alum Joseph Schwartzburt, faculty member Nancy McKinley, and one of Joe’s colleagues from Savannah, Zach Powers, the team will present a panel based on this topic at the upcoming AWP Conference in Seattle. “For those of us who double as musicians and writers,” Jeff says, “I feel we have a composer’s toolkit that transfers over to writing. I wanted to make that accessible to non-musicians.” The panel, Orchestration for Writers 101, will be presented on Saturday, March 1 at 9 a.m. “The panel itself focuses on applying musical ideas to better construct a narrative for both writers and teachers,” Jeff says. “We’ll perform, discuss, demonstrate, chat with the audience, laugh a little, have a good time, and ultimately explore these ideas in ways I hope the attendees can bring back home.” Nancy McKinley will add pedagogical perspective to the panel. “Writers and teachers of creative writing often listen to music as a warm-up, a springboard for bringing words to the page,” she says. “Jeff’s approach is the next logical step: using the analytic mode of musically scoring words on the page so that writers can see the progression of a piece. In the process, writers and teachers gain insight for heightening passages whereby the words and their placement enliven the musicality, in essence, the rhythm and soul of a piece.” �    Page and Stage: Alum Creates Opportunities When Monique Antonette Lewis was in the education internship term of her M.F.A., she encouraged her students to read their creative works in front of an audience. The venue she secured for her students’ reading was the notable KGB Bar in New York City. Since developing a rapport with the KGB management and demonstrating her ability to fill a room, Monique has successfully been running a monthly reading series. At The Inkwell is a two-part success story for this M.F.A. alum. Monique simultaneously runs the reading series—featuring indie locals and notable authors such as Wilkes’ own Beverly Donofrio and Kaylie Jones —alongside a website, attheinkwell.com, that features book reviews and interviews with up and coming writers. “I started At The Inkwell because I missed writing stories that helped people,” Monique says. “I’m a financial news journalist in NYC and before that I used to cover education and local government for newspapers. I loved that my stories sparked a change in people and the community I lived in, and the positive feedback that I received for the stories. I wanted to feel that passion again.” Monique’s goal with At The Inkwell is to serve both the local arts community and her own creative ambitions. “I love creative writing and hope to transition into it full-time one day, so I thought I could interview authors about their books, write book reviews, and host readings.”   Announcements   River & South Review , our new student-run literary journal, has launched its second issue. The editorial team is derived of current students in the M.A. and M.F.A. Wilkes writing programs. Each issue features poetry, fiction, and nonfiction—as selected by student editors— �and special theme issues will include additional genres. The journal website is hosted at http://riverandsouth.blogspot.com. New Program Tracks and Updates: Ever thought you wanted to start your own press, e-zine, or literary journal? Thanks to the initiative of Akashic Books editor Johnny Temple and Etruscan’s founding editor Phil Brady, alums and current students now have the option of pursuing a Master of Arts in Publishing! Wilkes alums need only take only an additional 18 credits to earn the M.A. in publishing. Have you found the world of documentary film fascinating? We have also added a Master of Arts in documentary film, which will begin in 2014. Like the new publishing degree, alums need only take an additional 18 credits to earn this degree. The curriculum is being developed now with Robert May, SenArt Films, and others. Due to student requests, all M.A. graduates will have their area of study on their diploma. For example, if you complete a screenplay for your thesis, your diploma will now read: “Master of Arts in Creative Writing specializing in screenwriting.” Beforehand, all diplomas simply read, “Master of Arts in Creative Writing.” Should you wish to return to Wilkes and specialize in another area of study, you need only take the last 18 credit hours to earn a second M.A. For more information on any of these new possibilities or to apply to any of the newly revised program tracks, please email or call Dr. Culver or Ms. Dawn Leas.   Faculty/Staff Notes   Lenore Hart will be teaching at the Ossabaw Island Writer’s Retreat in Savannah, GA, Feb 16-21. The five-day writing retreat also includes faculty members Neil Shepard and David Poyer. Rashidah Ismaili has a new website in development: http://about.me/rashidaismaili. Dawn Leas has an interview with Lori A. May and a review of Waking My Mother by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell in the winter issue of Poets’ Quarterly. Her poem “Pairs” appears in the January 2014 issue of Cumberland River Review, and “Explorer” is part of the Luzerne County �Poetry in Transit 2013-2014 program.Swandive Publishing will be releasing its first collection in spring 2014, which will include work by alums Kait Burrier, Stanton Hancock, Dawn Leas, and Jim Warner, and current student, Andrea McGuigan. Other poets in the collection are Barbara DeCesare, Sarah Zane Lewis, Dale Wilsey, and Eric Wilson.   Ross Klavan ’snew novel, Schmuck, is now available from Greenpoint Press. Kaylie Jones will be teaching a Norman Mailer Center workshop in Salt Lake City, Utah this summer. She also participated on a panel at Vogue Knitting Live, reading from her essay in Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting, published by W.W. Norton. Karen McElmurray has a short story, “That Night,” included in Red Holler: An Anthology of Contemporary Appalachian Writing, published by Sarabande Books. Nancy McKinley ’s short story “Ramp” will appear in the spring issue of The Blue Penny Quarterly. Taylor Polites participated on a panel at Vogue Knitting Live, reading from his essay in Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting, published by W.W. Norton. David Poyer ’s new novel, The Cruiser, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in May. Sara Pritchard ’s story collection Help Wanted: Female, published by Etruscan Press in July 2013, is now available as an audiobook (with Sara reading) through Amazon and Audible.com. A story from Sara’s first book of stories, Crackpots, is included in Red Holler: An Anthology of Contemporary Appalachian Writing, new from Sarabande Books. Jeff Talarigo was interviewed by Jennifer De Leon in AGNI Online where his story excerpt, “The Night Guardian of the Goat,” is also published.   Student/Alum Notes   �M.F.A. alum Chris Bullard ’s first full-length book of poetry, Back, was published in November of 2013 by CW Books, an imprint of WordTech Editions. Kattywompus Press recently published his chapbook, Dear Leatherface, for publication in January of 2014. Minor Arcana Press accepted his poem, “Sidekick,” for the anthology, Drawn to Marvel: Poems from the Comic Books, to be published in February of 2014. Fledgling Rag, a literary review, will feature a selection of his poems in its Issue 13 which will appear in April of 2014. M.F.A. alum Craig Czury has poems from “American Know-How: Patent Pending” in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Gazette. M.A. alum Jason Donnelly ’s novel, Gripped, was released by Perfect Edge Books in September. He has also released his creative thesis as a Kindle book. M.F.A. alum Brian Fanelli ’s full-length book of poems, All That Remains, was recently published by Unbound Content. The book has been nominated for the Working Class Studies Association’s Tillie Olsen Creative Writing Award. Brian was recently interviewed by Open Alphabet about the book, as well as by Boston Literary Magazine, and Poets’ Quarterly. He will be doing several readings for the book in 2014, including at the KGB Bar in New York City. M.F.A. alum Tyler Grimm is currently designing a brand new class for Elizabethtown College, The Psychology of Creative Writing. Tyler will also begin teaching Writing and Analysis of Short Story and advising students beginning in the summer. M.F.A. alum Matthew S. Hinton has accepted the position of Coordinator of Writing at Misericordia University. M.F.A. alum Laurie Loewenstein ’s debut novel, Unmentionables, the inaugural novel in Akashic’s Kaylie Jones Books imprint, has received a starred review in the January 15 th, 2014 issue of Library Journal. The book was also selected as a Midwest Connections Pick for January. M.F.A alum Carol MacAllister ’s short story, “Upgrade,” will be included in The Upcoming speculations anthology. Her book, Mayan Calendar Reveal, prompted an invitation by UFO Magazine editor and TV personality Bill Byrnes to be his guest on their 90-minute radio theater call-in show to discuss her research for the novel. Her collection of horror, The Blackmoor Tales, published by Northampton House Press, has received good press particularly though the Horror Writers Association membership. MacAllister’s poems have been included in the recent issue of Word Fountain. �M.F.A. alum Lori A. May has an essay, “After the Winds Die Down,” in the February issue of 1966 Journal (Trinity University); her essay, “Independence Road,” in the December issue of Northern Cardinal Review; and another essay,“Motor City Redux: In Pursuit of the American Dream,” in the winter issue of Midwestern Gothic. Her latest poetry book, Square Feet, was published in January with Accents Publishing. M.A. student Andrea McGuigan published an interview with Ross Klavan in The570.com. She was also awarded the Jennifer Diskin Memorial Scholarship at the January residency. M.A. alum Lori M. Myers had her play “91366” accepted for publication by HaveScripts. Lori wrote the play while attending Wilkes and in Jean Klein’s foundations class. Also, her short story, “Heartland Flyer,” was published by Alban Lake Publishing in Disturbed Digest.   M.F.A. alum Richard Priebe ’s short story, “A Bilingual Battle,” was recently published as part of the Terrible Tuesdays series by Akashic Books. M.F.A. alum William Prystauk recently conducted an interview with horror director Stuart Gordon (of Re-Animator fame) for The Last Knock podcast. His essay, “How to Prepare Students for Their Online Experience in Converge: A Journal of Faculty Collaboration for Distance Education,”has just been published. He has written and will direct the short film, Tigers in the Soup, a family drama, in January. He is currently developing Kickstarter campaigns for the crime drama CASE #591, which he will direct this June, and for the animated comedy-fantasy he has written, MegaClimax 5000. M.A. alum Dania Ramos was selected as a finalist in the 2013 MetLife Nuestras Voces National Playwriting Competition at Repertorio Español. M.F.A. alum Carrie Reilly has a poem, “Hesitation Wounds,” in Apiary 7: The Power Issue. She recently read at the launch party in Philadelphia. M.F.A. alum Jonathan Rocks recently signed with the Silver/Bitela Agency in Los Angeles, California. M.A. student Bill Schneider ’s short story, “Yesterday Once More,” will appear in Silly Tree Anthologies in January 2014. M.F.A. alum Michael J. Soloway will have his essay, “Women and Children First,” published by Hippocampus Magazine in January. Michael �was also recently promoted from Managing Editor to Editor-in-Chief of Split Lip Literary Magazine. M.A. student Francisco Tutella had a poem included in the Luzerne County Poetry in Transit 2013-2014 program. M.F.A. alum Morowa Yejidé ’s novel, Time of the Locust, was covered by books editor Patrik Henry Bass in the January print edition of Essence Magazine. Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. Farley Library Human Resources Jobs at Wilkes Online Nursing Offices & Administration Accessibility Statement Financial Aid Adobe Acrobat® Reader Registrar's Office Finance Office Investor Relations Student Work Study Jobs Veterans Services Visit Quick Links Schedule a Visit Parking Information Virtual Tour Campus Map Make A Gift �84 West South Street Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 1-800-WILKES-U Contact Us Wilkes University © e © d c f � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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